caldre
Catalan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From a variant of Lua error in Module:etymology at line 156: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Latin calēre, present active infinitive of caleō, from Proto-Italic *kalēō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelh₁-.
Verb
caldre
- (impersonal) it is needed, it is necessary
- (impersonal, +que +relative clause) to have to, to need to must
Conjugation
Related terms
Further reading
- “caldre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “caldre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “caldre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “caldre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.