calco

calco

1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

From Vulgar Latin *eccum ille followed by Latin qui.

calco

1. some, any

calco

1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.ko/
• Rhymes: -alko
• Hyphenation: càl‧co

From calcare. In the sense “loan translation”, however, probably a semantic loan from French calque.

calco m (plural calchi)

1. cast (of sculpture)
2. tracing (of a design)
3. literal loan translation, calque (calco semantico), loanword
4. mold

See calcare.

calco

1. first-person singular present indicative of calcare

• lacco, laccò

From calx (“heel”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫ.koː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkal.ko]

calcō (present infinitive calcāre, perfect active calcāvī, supine calcātum); first conjugation

1. to trample, tread on
2. to walk upon, cross on foot
3. (figuratively) to oppress
4. (figuratively) to scorn, contemn, despise

• calceus
• calcitrō
• calx

• calceō

• “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
• calco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -alku, (Brazil) -awku
• Hyphenation: cal‧co

calco

1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

calco m (plural calcos)

1. alternative form of calque

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalko/ [ˈkal.ko]
• Rhymes: -alko
• Syllabification: cal‧co

Deverbal from calcar. In the sense “calque”, however, probably a semantic loan from French calque.

calco m (plural calcos)

1. the action of copying or reproducing something
2. copy
3. imitation, reproduction
   • 1986, Mariano Fernández Enguita, Michael W. Apple, Marxismo y sociología de la educación:

     Según ellos, los principales aspectos de la organización educativa serían un calco de las relaciones de dominación y subordinación existentes en la esfera económica

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2021, Paula Arias, Un verano para siempre:

     Él, sin duda era un calco de su padre, y Natalie debió heredar la belleza de su madre

     Without doubt, he was a carbon copy of his father, and Natalie must have gotten her mother's beauty.

4. (colloquial) shoe
5. (linguistics) a calque

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

calco

1. first-person singular present indicative of calcar

• “calco”, 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