cal

English Online Dictionary. What means cal‎? What does cal mean?

Translingual

Symbol

cal

1. calorie

Derived terms

• ㎉ / kcal

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Etymology 1

Clippings.

Noun

cal (plural cals)

1. (informal) Clipping of calorie.
2. (military, informal) Clipping of caliber.
3. (informal) Clipping of calendar.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cal (uncountable)

1. (mining, archaic, UK, dialect, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten.

References

Etymology 3

From an abbreviation of calcium hydroxide.

Noun

cal (uncountable)

1. calcium hydroxide, slaked lime

See also

Anagrams

• ACL, CLA, LAC, LAc, LCA, Lac, alc, lac

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• calu

Etymology

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

Noun

cal m (plural calj or cayi)

1. horse

Related terms

• cãlãrets
• cãlar/ncãlar
• cãlãriu
• ncalic

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Contraction

cal

1. Contraction of ca el.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cal

1. third-person singular present indicative of caldre

Chinese

Etymology

From clipping of English calibrate.

Pronunciation

Verb

cal

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to fine-tune; to calibrate (a hardware, e.g. camera, television, speakers)

See also

• cal機／cal机, caltor

Dalmatian

Etymology 1

From Latin quālis.

Conjunction

cal

1. as

Etymology 2

From Latin callis.

Noun

cal

1. road, street

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal/

Noun

cal m (plural cals)

1. callus (hardened part of the skin)

Further reading

• “cal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

Noun

cal m (plural cales)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese cãale, from Latin canalis. Doublet of canal.

Alternative forms

• canle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

Noun

cal m or f (plural cales)

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

Derived terms

• Cal
• Da Cal
• Dacal

Etymology 3

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

Alternative forms

• cual

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

Pronoun

cal (plural cales)

1. which (what one)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/

Noun

cal f (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of caloría.

References

• “qual” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cãal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin callis, callem.

Noun

cal

1. street, alley

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kaliR. Compare Classical Nahuatl calli (“house”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /kal/
• (Witzapan) IPA^(key): /ɡal/
• (Cuisnahuat) IPA^(key): /kaɬ/, /kaːl/
• (Teotepeque) IPA^(key): /kaɬ/
• (Jicalapa) IPA^(key): /kaɬʲ/

Noun

cal (plural cahcal)

1. an enclosed habitational space, a house or room

Related terms

• -chan (“home”)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cal

Noun

cal m inan

1. inch (unit of measure)

Declension

Further reading

• cal in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cal

Noun

cal f or (nonstandard) m (plural cales or cais)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

Usage notes

Although common, usage of "cal" as a masculine gender noun is proscribed.

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), probably of Gaulish [Term?] origin or from something further east, such as a Scythian and ultimately Proto-Iranian [Term?] origin. The Romanian word likely went through an earlier hypothetical form *căal or *caual.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal/

Noun

cal m (plural cai)

1. horse
2. (chess) knight

Declension

Related terms

• călare
• încăleca

See also

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal/ [ˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cal

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx (via the nominative), from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”).

Noun

cal f (uncountable)

1. lime (calcium oxide)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Symbol

cal

1. Symbol of caloría

Further reading

• “cal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Volapük

Noun

cal (nominative plural cals)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

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