cal

• Rhymes: -æl

cal (plural cals)

1. Abbreviation of calorie.
2. Abbreviation of caliber.

cal (uncountable)

1. (mining, archaic, Britain, dialectal, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

From an abbreviation of calcium hydroxide

cal (uncountable)

1. calcium hydroxide, slaked lime

• ACL, CLA, LAC, LCA, Lac, alc, lac

• calu

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”). Compare Daco-Romanian cal.

cal m (plural calj)

1. horse

• cãlãrets
• cãlar/ncãlar
• cãlãriu
• ncalic

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkal/
• Rhymes: -al

cal

1. Contraction of ca el.

See the etymology of the main entry.

cal

1. third-person singular present indicative of caldre

From Latin quālis.

cal

1. as

cal

1. road, street

• 2000, Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

• IPA^(key): /kal/

cal m (plural cals)

1. callus (hardened part of the skin)

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal m (plural cales)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

• Caeira
• Caeiro
• Cal
• cal morto
• cal vivo

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cãal, from Latin canalis. Doublet of canal.

• canle

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal m or f (plural cales)

1. ditch
2. furrow
3. mill race
4. chute

• Cal
• Da Cal
• Dacal

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese qual, from Latin quālis (“which”). Cognate with Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.

• cual

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal

1. which (what one)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

cal f (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of caloría.

• “qual” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cãal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin callis, callem.

cal

1. street, alley

• IPA^(key): /t͡sal/

cal m inan

1. inch (unit of measure)

From Old Portuguese cal, from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?] (“break up, split”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɫ/
• Hyphenation: cal
• Rhymes: -aw

cal f (plural cales or cais)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), probably of Gaulish [Term?] origin.

• IPA^(key): /kal/

cal m (plural cai)

1. horse
2. (chess) knight

• călare
• încăleca

From Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?] (“break up, split”).

• Rhymes: -al

cal f (uncountable)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

• Rhymes: -al

cal

1. Symbol of caloría

• a cal y canto
• agua de cal
• cal apagada
• cal hidráulica
• cal muerta
• cal viva
• cloruro de cal
• piedra de cal
• una de cal y otra de arena

cal (plural cals)

1. occupation
2. office (position)
3. profession

• cäl
• cälan
• cäläb
• cälod
• cälodön
• cälov
• cälovik
• cälön
• hicäläb
• hicälan
• jicäläb
• jicälan
• laidacäl