# calco
## Asturian
### Verb

calco
* first-person singular present indicative of calcar

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccum ille followed by Latin qui.

### Adjective

calco
* some, any

## Galician
### Verb

calco
* first-person singular present indicative of calcar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkal.ko/
* Rhymes: -alko
* Hyphenation: càl‧co

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

calco m (plural calchi)
* cast (of sculpture)
* tracing (of a design)
* literal loan translation, calque (calco semantico), loanword
* mold

### Etymology 2

See calcare.

#### Verb

calco
* first-person singular present indicative of calcare

### Anagrams

* lacco, laccò

## Latin
### Etymology

From calx (“heel”) +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkal.koː/, [ˈkäɫ̪koː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkal.ko/, [ˈkälko]

### Verb

calcō (present infinitive calcāre, perfect active calcāvī, supine calcātum); first conjugation
* to trample, tread on
* to walk upon, cross on foot
* (figuratively) to oppress
* (figuratively) to scorn, contemn, despise

#### Derived terms

* calcātor
* calcātōrium
* calcātūra
* circumcalcō, circumculcō
* conculcō
* dēculcō
* exculcō
* inculcō
* intercalcō, interculcō
* occulcō
* praeculcō
* prōculcō
* recalcō
* supercalcō

#### Related terms

* calceus
* calcitrō
* calx

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: calcu, cãlcari
* Asturian: calcar
* Catalan: calcar
* English: calcate
* French: calquer
** English: calque
* Friulian: cjalcjâ, čhalčhâ
* Galician: calcar
* Italian: calcare
* Old French: chauchier, cauchier
** Middle French: chaucher, caucher
*** French: chaucher, côcher
* Piedmontese: calché
* Portuguese: calcar
* Romanian: călca, călcare
* Sardinian: calcare, calcai, carcare, carcài
* Sicilian: carcari
* Spanish: calcar
* Venetan: calcar

### See also

* calceō

### References

* “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.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaw.ku/ [ˈkaʊ̯.ku]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaw.ku/ [ˈkaʊ̯.ku]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkaw.ko/ [ˈkaʊ̯.ko]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkal.ku/ [ˈkaɫ.ku]
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -alku, (Brazil) -awku
* Hyphenation: cal‧co

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

calco
* first-person singular present indicative of calcar

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

calco m (plural calcos)
* Alternative form of calque

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkalko/ [ˈkal.ko]
* Rhymes: -alko
* Syllabification: cal‧co

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

calco m (plural calcos)
* the action of copying or reproducing something
* copy
* 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 madreWithout doubt, he was a carbon copy of his father, and Natalie must have gotten her mother's beauty.
* (colloquial) shoe
* (linguistics) a calque

##### Derived terms

* papel de calco

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

calco
* first-person singular present indicative of calcar

#### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10