# calmar
## English
### Noun

calmar (plural calmars)
* A squid (the mollusk).
** 1792, George Louis Le Clerc, Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, page 126:During the summer, he studied calmars at Lisbon, but found no appearance of any roe, nor any reservoir which appeared to be destined for the reception of the seminal liquor; and it was in the middle of December, that he began to discern the first traces of a new vessel replete with a milty juice.

## Catalan
### Etymology

From calma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kəlˈma]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kalˈmaɾ]
* Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
* Hyphenation: cal‧mar

### Verb

calmar (first-person singular present calmo, first-person singular preterite calmí, past participle calmat)
* (transitive) to calm
* (intransitive, reflexive) to calm down
    Encara fa sol i el mar s'ha calmat. ― Yet it's sunny and the sea has become calm.

#### Derived terms

* calmable
* calmant
* calmat

## French
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kal.maʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

calmar m (plural calmars)
* squid (the mollusk)

#### Derived terms

* calmar colossal
* calmar commun
* calmar géant
* calmar loliginidé

### Further reading

* “calmar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Verb

calmar
* to calm
* to still

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kawˈma(ʁ)/ [kaʊ̯ˈma(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kawˈma(ʁ)/ [kaʊ̯ˈma(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kawˈma(ɾ)/ [kaʊ̯ˈma(ɾ)]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kawˈma(ʁ)/ [kaʊ̯ˈma(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kawˈma(ɻ)/ [kaʊ̯ˈma(ɻ)]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kalˈmaɾ/ [kaɫˈmaɾ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kalˈmaɾ/ [kaɫˈmaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /kalˈma.ɾi/ [kaɫˈma.ɾi]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

calmar (first-person singular present calmo, first-person singular preterite calmei, past participle calmado)
* (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) Alternative form of acalmar
* (transitive, colloquial) to beat

##### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

calmar m (plural calmares)
* Alternative form of calamar

## Romanian
### Alternative forms

* calamar

### Etymology

Borrowed from French calmar. Doublet of călimară.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kalˈmar/

### Noun

calmar m (plural calmari)
* squid

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

From calma +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kalˈmaɾ/ [kalˈmaɾ]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: cal‧mar

### Verb

calmar (first-person singular present calmo, first-person singular preterite calmé, past participle calmado)
* (transitive) to calm, to still (to limit and lessen in motion and disturbance)
* (transitive) to calm, soothe, assuage, to ease, to appease, to quell, to allay, to settle, to relieve (to make lessen in intensity)
* (transitive, figurative) to defuse (e.g. a situation or problem, tension or conflict, a crisis)
* (transitive, figurative) to quench, to quell (one's thirst)
* (transitive, figurative) to cool
* (transitive) to talk down, to talk off the ledge
* (intransitive) to subside, abate
* (intransitive) to steady (often used when talking to an animal one is riding like a horse)
* (reflexive) to calm down, to settle down, to quiet down, to calm oneself
* (reflexive) to cool off, to cool it, to chill, to chill out
* (reflexive) to subside

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Alternative forms

* acalmar (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* calmante
* calmar los ánimos (“to calm things down”)

### Further reading

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