Latin

Proper noun

Callet n ‎(indeclinable)

1. a city in Hispania Baetica

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Callet”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

callet ‎(plural callets)

1. A trull or prostitute.
2. A scold or gossip.

Quotations

• 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 4, Scene 2

  He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

Verb

callet ‎(third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

1. (obsolete) To rail or scold.

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References

• callet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Verb

callet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of calleō