calça

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”). Over time the meaning extended upward to include all of the body from the waist down, then contracted to cover only the area just below the waist.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkal.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkal.sa]

calça f (plural calces)

1. (archaic) sock

   Synonym: mitjó

2. hose

   Synonym: mitja

3. (in the plural) pantaloons; knickers

   Synonym: pantaló

4. (in the plural) panties

   Synonym: calçó

5. (agriculture) the outer bark of a cork oak that is put back on the tree after the cork has been harvested so as to help the tree to survive and produce more cork

• calçar
• calcar

• “calça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “calça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “calça”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

calça

1. inflection of calçar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Rhymes: -alsɐ, -awsɐ
• Hyphenation: cal‧ça

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese calça, from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”).

calça f (plural calças)

1. (chiefly in the plural) trousers, pants
2. ring (on a mushroom)

• calçar
• calcar
• coice

calça

1. inflection of calçar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative