calcaire

French

calcaire

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius, from calx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.kɛʁ/

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Noun

calcaire m (plural calcaires)

1. limestone

Adjective

calcaire (plural calcaires)

1. calcareous

Related terms

• calcémie
• calcique
• calcite
• calcium
• chaux
• décalcifier
• décalfication

Descendants

• → Turkish: kalker

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

From calc (“caulk”, verb) +‎ -aire (agent noun suffix).

Noun

calcaire m (genitive singular calcaire, nominative plural calcairí)

1. caulker
2. caulking-iron
3. glutton

Declension

Declension of calcaire (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative calcaire calcairí vocative a chalcaire a chalcairí genitive calcaire calcairí dative calcaire calcairí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an calcaire na calcairí genitive an chalcaire na gcalcairí dative leis an gcalcaire don chalcaire leis na calcairí

Synonyms

• (caulking-iron): calcóid f
• (glutton): béiceadán, blaochán, bleadrachán, cíocrachán, craosaire, gainéan, glutaire, gorb, graoisín, longaire, málaeir, slogaire, suthaire

Mutation

Mutated forms of calcaire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
calcaire	chalcaire	gcalcaire

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “calcaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN