calzar

• calçar (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese calçar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin calceāre.

• IPA^(key): , (western)

calzar (first-person singular present calzo, first-person singular preterite calcei, past participle calzado)

1. to wear or put on shoes
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 667:

     calçaronllj hũas calças daquel meesmo pano

     they put on him some breeches of the same cloth

2. to wedge, chock

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “calçar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “calçar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “calzar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “calzar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calzar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “calzar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Inherited from Latin calceāre.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kalˈθaɾ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kalˈsaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cal‧zar

calzar (first-person singular present calzo, first-person singular preterite calcé, past participle calzado)

1. to wear or put on shoes
2. to be or have (a shoe size)

   ¿Cuánto calzas?

   What's your shoe size?

   Yo calzo 44. ― I wear size 44.

3. to wedge, to chock
4. (reflexive) (reflextive) to wear, to slip into
   • 2017 January, “Piornal, el pueblo que echa a los ladrones lanzándoles nabos”, in Frontera.info‎:

     Su misión es calzarse una armadura de 40 kilos cubierta de cintas de colores y una máscara de aspecto demoníaco parar recorrer las calles con un tamboril y soportar la lluvia de nabos de gran calibre.

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5. (reflexive) (slang) to have sex with

• descalzar

• “calzar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10