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calco

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See also: calcó, calcò, calço, calco-, and -calco

Asturian

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Verb

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calco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *eccum ille followed by Latin qui.

Adjective

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calco

  1. some, any

Galician

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Verb

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calco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkal.ko/
  • Rhymes: -alko
  • Hyphenation: càl‧co

Etymology 1

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From calcare. In the sense “loan translation”, however, probably a semantic loan from French calque.

Noun

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calco m (plural calchi)

  1. cast (of sculpture)
  2. tracing (of a design)
  3. literal loan translation, calque (calco semantico), loanword
  4. mold

Etymology 2

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See calcare.

Verb

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calco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calcare

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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    From calx (“heel”) + -ō.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    calcō (present infinitive calcāre, perfect active calcāvī, supine calcātum); first conjugation

    1. to trample, tread on
    2. to walk upon, cross on foot
    3. (figuratively) to oppress
    4. (figuratively) to scorn, contemn, despise

    Conjugation

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    Descendants

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    See also

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    References

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    • “calco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “calco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “calco”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

    Portuguese

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    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: (Portugal) -alku, (Brazil) -awku
    • Hyphenation: cal‧co

    Etymology 1

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    Verb

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    calco

    1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

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    calco m (plural calcos)

    1. alternative form of calque

    Further reading

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    Spanish

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    Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈkalko/ [ˈkal.ko]
    • Rhymes: -alko
    • Syllabification: cal‧co

    Etymology 1

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    Deverbal from calcar. In the sense “calque”, however, probably a semantic loan from French calque.

    Noun

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    calco m (plural calcos)

    1. the action of copying or reproducing something
    2. copy
    3. imitation, reproduction
      • 1986, Mariano Fernández Enguita, Michael W. Apple, Marxismo y sociología de la educación:
        Según ellos, los principales aspectos de la organización educativa serían un calco de las relaciones de dominación y subordinación existentes en la esfera económica
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • 2021, Paula Arias, Un verano para siempre:
        Él, sin duda era un calco de su padre, y Natalie debió heredar la belleza de su madre
        Without doubt, he was a carbon copy of his father, and Natalie must have gotten her mother's beauty.
    4. (colloquial) shoe
    5. (linguistics) a calque
    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      calco

      1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

      Further reading

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