calcaria

See also: calcária, calcaría, calcària, and calçaria

Galician

Adjective

calcaria f sg

1. feminine singular of calcario

Noun

calcaria f (plural calcarias)

1. limestone

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Latin

Etymology

From calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), from calx (“lime”) + -ārius.

Noun

calcāria f (genitive calcāriae); first declension

1. lime quarry
2. lime kiln
3. lime works

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	calcāria	calcāriae
genitive	calcāriae	calcāriārum
dative	calcāriae	calcāriīs
accusative	calcāriam	calcāriās
ablative	calcāriā	calcāriīs
vocative	calcāria	calcāriae

Descendants

• Albanian: qëlqere (borrowed)

Adjective

calcāria

1. nominative feminine singular of calcārius
2. nominative neuter plural of calcārius
3. accusative neuter plural of calcārius
4. vocative feminine singular of calcārius
5. nominative neuter plural of calcārius

calcāriā

1. ablative feminine singular of calcārius

References

• du Cange, Charles (1883), “calcaria”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “calcaria” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to put spurs to a horse: calcaria subdere equo
    
  • (ambiguous) to spur, urge a person on: calcaria alicui adhibere, admovere; stimulos alicui admovere
    
• calcaria in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• calcaria in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

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Portuguese

Verb

calcaria

1. first-person singular conditional of calcar
2. third-person singular conditional of calcar