calle

From call +‎ -e.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡saɫɛ]

calle

1. (regional) feminine of call (“inapt, unuseful, naive”)

   Synonyms: papërshtatshme, paaftë, axhami

calle f (plural calles)

1. alternative form of cai

Inherited from Spanish calle, from Latin callis, callem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʎe/, [ˈka.ʎe]
• Rhymes: -aʎe
• Hyphenation: ca‧lle

calle (plural calles)

1. street

calle

1. inflection of callar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Latin callem (“path”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.le/
• Rhymes: -alle
• Hyphenation: càl‧le

calle f (plural calli)

1. (archaic) (narrow) path

   Synonyms: sentiero, stradina

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Or sen va per un secreto calle, ¶ tra ’l muro de la terra e li martìri, ¶ lo mio maestro, e io dopo le spalle.

     Now onward goes, along a narrow path between the torments and the city wall, ⁠my Master, and I follow at his back.

2. (archaic) route, way, road

   Synonyms: cammino, tragitto

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 16–18; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de’ raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.

     Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, vested already with that planet's rays which leadeth others right by every road.

3. (Venice) alley (especially in Venice)

• -cella, cella

callē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of calleō

• “calle”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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• Syllabification: ca‧lle
• Homophone: Calle

Inherited from Old Spanish cal, calle, from Latin callem. For the retention/analogical restoration of final /e/ after /ʎ/, compare valle and conversely piel.

• c/ (abbreviation)

calle f (plural calles)

1. street

   Synonyms: calzada, pista

2. lane (in a pool or racetrack, but not a highway)

   Synonym: carril

• (street): alameda, avenida, bulevar, callejón, camino, carretera, senda, sendero, travesía

• Chavacano: calle
• → Basque: kale
• → Baure: kaye
• → Hiligaynon: kalye
• → Tagalog: kalye

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

calle

1. inflection of callar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “calle”, 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

• lleca

calle

1. warm