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calco
calco
Italian
Etymology 1
From calcare.
Noun
calco m (plural calchi)
- cast (of sculpture)
- tracing (of a design)
- literal loan translation, calque (calco semantico), loanword
- mold
Etymology 2
See calcare.
Verb
calco
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.koː/
Verb
calcō (present infinitive calcāre, perfect active calcāvī, supine calcātum); first conjugation
- I trample, tread on.
- I walk upon, cross on foot.
- (figuratively) I oppress.
- (figuratively) I scorn, contemn, despise.
Inflection
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References
- 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “calco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology 1
Noun
calco m (plural calcos)
- The action of copying or reproducing something.
- copy
- imitation, reproduction
- (colloquial) shoe
- (linguistics) A calque
Derived terms
- papel de calco
Etymology 2
See calcar.
Verb
calco