cal
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English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æl
Noun
cal (uncountable)
- (mining, archaic, Britain, dialectal, Cornwall) wolfram, an ore of tungsten
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology 3
From an abbreviation of calcium hydroxide
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”). Compare Daco-Romanian cal.
Catalan
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Dalmatian
References
- 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.
Galician
Etymology 1
From Old Galician / Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkal/
Derived terms
- Caeira
- Caeiro
- Cal
- cal morto
- cal vivo
Etymology 2
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cãal, from Latin canalis. Doublet of canal.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkal/
Derived terms
- Cal
- Da Cal
- Dacal
Etymology 3
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese qual, from Latin quālis (“which”). Cognate with Portuguese qual and Spanish cual.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkal/
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkal/
References
- “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.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡sal/
Portuguese
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkaɫ/
- Hyphenation: cal
- Rhymes: -aw
Romanian
Etymology
From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), probably of Gaulish [Term?] origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kal/
Declension
Spanish
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin cals, from Latin calx, from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?] (“break up, split”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
Derived terms
- 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
Volapük
Declension
Derived terms
- bai cal
- bijopacal
- bötädalacal
- büakanitanacal
- büranacal
- calablig
- caladinit
- calajäf
- calal
- calam
- calan
- calanem
- calanemön
- calasvist
- calasvistät
- calasvistätik
- calasvistik
- calavobod
- calazil
- calid
- (transitive) calidön
- calihilaban
- calijilaban
- calilab
- calilaban
- calik
- caliko
- calikön
- calilisit
- calilisitan
- calinotedian
- calo
- calodugälan
- calohidugälan
- calohikrütan
- calohikusadan
- calohilekusadan
- calohisukan
- calojidugälan
- calojikrütan
- calojikusadan
- calojilekusadan
- calojisukan
- calokrütan
- calokusadan
- calokusadan rejimenik
- calolekusadan
- calolekusadan militik
- calosukan
- caloyül
- caloyülan
- calöf
- calöfik
- calöfo
- calön
- calön as
- calükam
- (transitive) calükön
- calükön eki
- calül
- calülilisit
- calülilisitan
- cifacal
- cödalacal
- dilekanacal
- diviguvanacal
- donacalan
- donahicalan
- donajicalan
- fotocalan
- fotocalanaziläk
- fotohicalan
- fotojicalan
- gämöpahicalan
- gämöpajicalan
- gämöpacalan
- geracal
- gijätacal
- gijätacalan
- gijätahicalan
- gijätajicalan
- gitädadünanacal
- hicalan
- jicalan
- kasedabötalacal
- kasedacalan
- kasedahicalan
- kasedajicalan
- komotacal
- kuracal
- kuracalal
- kuracalan
- kurahicalan
- kurajicalan
- laidacal
- legätacal
- lelivacal
- libavilacalan
- libavilacalan pö gitäd
- libavilahicalan
- libavilajicalan
- lelivacals
- löpacal
- löpacalihilaban
- löpacalihilaban
- löpacalik
- löpacalilaban
- penanacal
- pläidanacal
- poldacalalabür
- poldacalalam
- potacal
- potacalan
- potahicalan
- potajicalan
- presidanacal
- reiganacal
- säcalükam
- säcalükamapenäd
- (transitive)säcalükön
- sekretanacal
- stimacal
- tidalacal
- tidanacal
- yananacal
Related terms
- cäl
- cälan
- cäläb
- cälod
- cälodön
- cälov
- cälovik
- cälön
- hicäläb
- hicälan
- jicäläb
- jicälan
- laidacäl