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English

Etymology

From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kælks/

Noun

calx (plural calxes or calces)

1. (now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
   • 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University 2004, p. 179:

     The regeneration of mercury from its calx, without addition of any other substance, had been a chief example for anti-phlogiston, but that could, as Kirwan showed, be explained in a way consistent with phlogiston theory.

2. In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kalks/, [kä??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kalks/, [k?lks]

Etymology 1

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khálix, “pebble”).

Noun

calx f (genitive calcis); third declension

1. limestone
2. chalk
3. the finish line

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin, with possibilities including:

• An extension of the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kel- (“to bend”).
• Etruscan origin
• From Proto-Indo-European *klHk(?)-(n)-, related to Serbo-Croatian kuk (“thigh, hip”), Bulgarian ????? (k?lka, “hip”), Russian ???? (kolk, “bony stump”), Latvian kulksnis (“hock”), Lithuanian kulksnis (“ankle”), Old Prussian culczi (“hip”)

Noun

calx f (genitive calcis); third declension

1. (anatomy) heel (of the foot)

   Synonyms: t?lus, (Medieval Latin) t?l?

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• (limestone) calx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (heel) calx in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• calx in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• calx in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• calx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kælk/
• Rhymes: -ælk
• Homophone: calque

Noun

calc (countable and uncountable, plural calcs)

1. Abbreviation of calculus.
2. Abbreviation of calculator.
3. Abbreviation of calculation.

Anagrams

• LACC, LCAC, Lacc

Catalan

Etymology

From calcar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?kalk/

Noun

calc m (plural calcs)

1. tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
2. (linguistics) calque (a word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language)

Further reading

• “calc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “calc” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “calc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “calc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old Saxon

Noun

calc m

1. Alternative spelling of kalk

Romanian

Etymology 1

From French calque.

Noun

calc n (plural calcuri)

1. tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
2. (lexicography) calque, loan translation

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

calc

1. first-person singular present indicative of c?lca
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of c?lca