calco
Appearance
Asturian
[edit]Verb
[edit]calco
Dalmatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *eccum ille followed by Latin qui.
Adjective
[edit]calco
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]calco
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From calcare. In the sense “loan translation”, however, probably a semantic loan from French calque.
Noun
[edit]calco m (plural calchi)
- cast (of sculpture)
- tracing (of a design)
- literal loan translation, calque (calco semantico), loanword
- mold
Etymology 2
[edit]See calcare.
Verb
[edit]calco
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Etymology tree
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkaɫ.koː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkal.ko]
Verb
[edit]calcō (present infinitive calcāre, perfect active calcāvī, supine calcātum); first conjugation
- to trample, tread on
- to walk upon, cross on foot
- (figuratively) to oppress
- (figuratively) to scorn, contemn, despise
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of calcō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Insular Romance:
- Balkano-Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: calché
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]calco
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]calco m (plural calcos)
- alternative form of calque
Further reading
[edit]- “calco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “calco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Deverbal from calcar. In the sense “calque”, however, probably a semantic loan from French calque.
Noun
[edit]calco m (plural calcos)
- the action of copying or reproducing something
- copy
- 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.
- (colloquial) shoe
- (linguistics) a calque
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]calco
Further reading
[edit]- “calco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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- Dalmatian lemmas
- Dalmatian adjectives
- Galician non-lemma forms
- Galician verb forms
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/alko
- Rhymes:Italian/alko/2 syllables
- Italian terms borrowed from French
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- Italian lemmas
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- Latin verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs
- Latin first conjugation verbs with perfect in -āv-
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/alku
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/awku
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- Portuguese non-lemma forms
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- Rhymes:Spanish/alko
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- Spanish deverbals
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