callus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin callum (“hard skin”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkæləs/

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• Rhymes: -æləs
• Homophone: callous

Noun

callus (plural calluses or calli)

1. A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
   • 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 17:

     Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally

2. The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
3. (botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
4. (entomology) A shining area on the frons of many species of Tabanomorpha (horse flies and relatives).

Translations

hardened part of the skin

• Arabic: جُسْأَة f (jusʔa)

  Gulf Arabic: فالول (fālūl)

• Armenian: կոշտուկ (hy) (koštuk)
• Bashkir: һөйәл (höyəl)
• Bulgarian: мазо́л (bg) m (mazól)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: call (ca), cal·lus (ca) m, durícia (ca) f, mula (ca) f
• Cebuano: lupak, kubal
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胼胝 (zh) (piánzhī), 老繭／老茧 (zh) (lǎojiǎn), 繭子／茧子 (zh) (jiǎnzi)

• Czech: mozol (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: eelt (nl) n
• Esperanto: kaluso
• Finnish: känsä (fi)
• French: cal (fr) m, durillon (fr) m, calus (fr) m
• Galician: amata f, calo (gl) m, talo (gl) m
• Gallurese: gaddu, incàddu
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schwiele (de) f, (skin) Hornhaut (de) f, (botany) Kallus (de) m
• Greek: κάλος (el) m (kálos), τύλωμα (el) n (týloma)

  Ancient: τύλη f (túlē)

• Hebrew: גרומת f (grómet), קלוס (he) m (kálus)
• Hungarian: bőrkeményedés (hu)
• Icelandic: sigg n
• Italian: callo (it) m
• Japanese: 胼胝 (ja) (タコ, たこ, tako)
• Khmer: ក្រិន (km) (krən), ពកស្លា (pɔɔk slaa)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: callum n
• Macedonian: кла́вус m (klávus)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pātio
• Navajo: kébąąh ntłʼizgo dah naaznilígíí (on the foot), kébąąh ntłʼizgo daditánígíí (on the foot)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: træl m

• Occitan: bast (oc) m, barda (oc) f
• Old English: wearr m
• Persian: پینه (fa) (pine), شغه (šoğe), کلخچ (fa) (kalaxč)
• Plautdietsch: Schwiel f
• Portuguese: calo (pt) m
• Quechua: khacha
• Romanian: bătătură (ro)
• Russian: мозо́ль (ru) m (mozólʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: callu

  Logudorese: addu

• Sassarese: gaddu
• Serbo-Croatian: žulj (sh) m
• Sicilian: caḍḍu m
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: callo (es) m
• Swedish: valk (sv) c
• Tagalog: lipak, kalyo
• Tarifit: areffix m
• Thai: ผิวหนังที่ด้านหนา (pĭw năng têe dâan năa)
• Turkish: nasır (tr)
• Ukrainian: мозо́ль m (mozólʹ)
• Vietnamese: chai (vi)
• Volapük: honaskin
• Welsh: caleden f

material of repair in fractures of bone

• Finnish: uudisluu, kallus (fi)

botany: new formation over the end of a cutting

• Finnish: haavasolukko, kallus (fi)

Verb

callus (third-person singular simple present calluses, present participle callusing, simple past and past participle callused)

1. (intransitive) To form such hardened tissue.

Translations

to form hardened tissue

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長繭／长茧 (zhǎng jiǎn)

• Finnish: känsittyä
• German: verhornen (de)
• Italian: incallire
• Maori: pātio
• Portuguese: calejar (pt), encalecer

Anagrams

• sulcal