caló

From Romani kalo, from Sanskrit काल (kāla, “dark, black”).

caló (feminine callí)

1. tanned, dark-skinned
2. Romani

   a sueí callí

   the Romani people.

• → Catalan: caló, calé
• → Portuguese: caló, calão
• → Spanish: caló

• “caló” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 26.
• “caló” in Francisco Quindalé, Diccionario gitano, Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio.
• “caló” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈlo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o

Borrowed from Caló caló (“Caló”).

caló m (uncountable)

1. Caló

   Synonym: romaní espanyol

• (Romani): gitano, romaní

caló m (plural calós)

1. an argot that has been salted with Caló vocabulary

• argot (“argot”)

From cala +‎ -ó.

caló m (plural calons)

1. (Balearic) a small cove

• cala (“cove”)

• Hyphenation: ca‧ló

caló m (plural calós)

1. Caló (language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani)

   Synonym: calão

• IPA^(key): /kaˈlo/ [kaˈlo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ca‧ló

Borrowed from Caló caló (“Caló”), from Romani kalo (“black”).

caló m (plural calós)

1. Caló (the Para-Romani language mainly spoken in the past by Spanish and Portuguese Roma, which is based on Romance grammar, with an adstratum of Romani lexical items)
2. an argot spoken by pachucos in the United States

   Synonym: pachuco

caló

1. third-person singular preterite indicative of calar

• “caló”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024