calcar

From the Italian calcara (“lime-kiln”).

calcar (plural calcars)

1. A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.

• calcarious
• calcary

From the Latin calcar (“spur”).

calcar (plural calcars)

1. (botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.

• calcarate

• calcariferous
• calcariform
• calcarine

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

calcar (first-person singular indicative present calco, past participle calcáu)

1. to press, push
2. to hit, strike

From Latin calcāre (“to press”), present active infinitive of calcō.

• IPA^(key): /kalˈkaɾ/

calcar (first-person singular present calco, first-person singular preterite calquei, past participle calcado)

1. to press
2. to trample

• calco
• socalcar
• socalco

• calcañar
• couce

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

Possibly from an extension of the Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“heel”). Cognate of calx, calcō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.kar/, [ˈkäɫ̪kär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.kar/, [ˈkälkär]

calcar n (genitive calcāris); third declension

1. spur (equestrian, or of a cock)
2. (figuratively) incitement, stimulus

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

• → English: calcar

• “calcar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “calcar”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calcar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to put spurs to a horse: calcaribus equum concitare
    
• “calcar”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “calcar”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough, 1903.

From Latin calcāre.

• Hyphenation: cal‧car

calcar (first-person singular present calco, first-person singular preterite calquei, past participle calcado)

1. to trample, to crush
2. to press (grapes, etc.)
3. (figuratively) to humiliate, to subjugate
4. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (transitive) to base a work on (a previous one)
5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (transitive) to copy a work

• Do not confuse with calçar.

calcar m (plural calcares)

1. (botany) spur
2. (zoology) in arthropods, a mobile process similar to a spike
3. (zoology) in certain insects, the strongest spur located in the tibia

Borrowed from French calcaire, from Latin calcarius.

• IPA^(key): /kalˈkar/, /ˈkal.kar/

calcar n (plural calcare)

1. limestone

   Synonym: piatră-de-var

• calcaros

• IPA^(key): /kalˈkaɾ/ [kalˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cal‧car

Inherited from Latin calcāre.

calcar (first-person singular present calco, first-person singular preterite calqué, past participle calcado)

1. to trace, copy (copy by means of carbon paper or tracing paper)
2. to trample

calcar m (plural calcares)

1. (anatomy, botany) calcar (a spur-like projection)

• “calcar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28