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Webster 1913 Edition


Calcar

Cal′car

,
Noun.
[L.
calcaria
lime kiln, fr.
calx
,
calcis
, lime. See
Calx
.]
(Glass manuf.)
A kind of oven, or reverberatory furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Ure.

Cal′car

,
Noun.
; L.
pl.
Calcaria
(#)
.
[L., a spur, as worn on the heel, also the spur of a cock, fr.
calx
,
calcis
, the heel.]
1.
(Bot.)
A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
2.
(Zool.)
A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
3.
(Anat.)
(a)
A spur, or spurlike prominence.
(b)
A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.

Webster 1828 Edition


Calcar

CALCAR

,
Noun.
In glass works, a kind of oven, or reverberating furnace, used for the calcination of sand and salt of potash, and converting them into frit.

Definition 2024


calcar

calcar

See also: calçar

English

Noun

calcar (plural calcars)

  1. A small oven or furnace, used for the calcination of sand and potash, and converting them into frit.
Related terms
  • calcarious
  • calcary

Etymology 2

From the Latin calcar (spur).

Noun

calcar (plural calcars)

  1. (botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.
Derived terms
Related terms

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

Verb

calcar (first-person singular indicative present calco, past participle calcáu)

  1. to press, push
  2. to hit, strike

Conjugation


Latin

Etymology

Possibly from an extension of the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kel- (heel). Cognate of calx, calcō.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkal.kar/, [ˈkaɫ.kar]

Noun

calcar n (genitive calcāris); third declension

  1. spur (equestrian, or of a cock)
  2. (figuratively) incitement, stimulus

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative calcar calcāria
genitive calcāris calcārium
dative calcārī calcāribus
accusative calcar calcāria
ablative calcārī calcāribus
vocative calcar calcāria

Descendants

References

  • calcar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • calcar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “calcar”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to put spurs to a horse: calcaribus equum concitare
  • calcar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calcar in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough, 1903.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kaɫ.ˈkaɾ/
  • Hyphenation: cal‧car

Verb

calcar (first-person singular present indicative calco, past participle calcado)

  1. to trample
  2. to press (grapes etc)
  3. to crush
  4. to humiliate

Conjugation

Usage notes


Spanish

Etymology

From Latin calcāre, present active infinitive of calcō.

Verb

calcar (first-person singular present calco, first-person singular preterite calqué, past participle calcado)

  1. to trace, copy (copy by means of carbon paper or tracing paper)
  2. to trample

Conjugation

  • c becomes qu before e.

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