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

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.kar/, [ˈkaɫ.kar]

calcar n (genitive calcāris); third declension

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

Third declension 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, 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, present active infinitive of calcō.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kaɫ.ˈkaɾ/
• Hyphenation: cal‧car

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

1. to trample, to crush
2. to press (grapes, etc.)
3. (figuratively) to humiliate, to subjugate
4. (transitive) to base a work on (a previous one)
5. (transitive) to copy a work

• Do not confuse with calçar.

• calcanhar
• coice
• inculcar

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

• IPA^(key): /kalˈkaɾ/

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

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

• c becomes qu before e.

calcar m (plural calcares)

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

• calcarino

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