caler

• calre (Ribagorçan)

Inherited from Latin calēre. Compare Occitan caler and Catalan caldre.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈle(ɾ)/
• Syllabification: ca‧ler
• Rhymes: -e(ɾ)

caler

1. to be necessary

   Mi mai diz que cal que fez el minchar pa manyana

   My mom says that it's necessary that you cook the food for tomorrow.

Inherited from Latin calere.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈleɾ/ [kaˈleɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧ler

caler

1. (impersonal) to be convenient

   Synonyms: convenir, pervenir, cuadrar, (colloquial) pintar, xostrar

   Nun cal que vaigas.

   It isn't convenient that you go

• “caler”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “caler”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin calēre. Compare Occitan and Aragonese caler.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈlɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈleɾ]
• Rhymes: -ɛ(ɾ)

caler (third-person only, third-person singular present cal, third-person singular preterite calgué, past participle calgut)

1. alternative form of caldre

From cale.

• IPA^(key): /ka.le/

caler

1. (transitive) to cover the head
2. (transitive) to give a haircut; to do the hair of
3. (reflexive, se caler) to do one's own hair

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[1] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[2] (in French), Troyes

Borrowed from Old Occitan calar, from Ancient Greek χαλάω (khaláō).

• IPA^(key): /ka.le/

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caler

1. (transitive) to wedge (open) (a door)
2. (transitive) to jam (machinery etc.), to stall (an engine)
3. (intransitive) to stall (of driver, engine)
4. (transitive) to fill (someone) up
5. (intransitive, colloquial) (of person eating) to be full
6. (transitive) to synchronize
7. (Quebec, transitive) to chug (an alcoholic beverage)
8. (Quebec, transitive) to be bald or balding, to go or be going bald

• “caler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• lacer, racle, raclé

caler

1. to glow

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caler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of calō

From Old Occitan caler, from Latin calēre. Compare French chaloir, Franco-Provençal chalêr, Catalan caldre, caler and Aragonese caler.

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caler

1. to be necessary

• Guilhemjoan, Patric (2005), Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), Per Noste, →ISBN, page 41.

Inherited from Latin calēre.

caler

1. (reflexive, se caler) to care about; to be concerned about
   • 12th century, Bernard de Ventadour, Lo gens tems de pascor

     Ela.m ditz no m'en chal.

     She says it to me; I don't care

• Usually in negative constructions with the pronoun ne. Compare Old French chaloir.

• Occitan: caler

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “calēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 83