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calare

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See also: Calare, calaré, and călare

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin chalāre (“to let down”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ca‧là‧re

Verb

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calàre (first-person singular present càlo, first-person singular past historic calài, past participle calàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

  1. (transitive) to lower
  2. (transitive) to decrease
  3. (transitive) to drop
  4. (intransitive) to drop, decrease, taper off [auxiliary essere]
  5. (intransitive by extension, of heavenly bodies, chiefly the Sun) to set [auxiliary essere]
  6. (intransitive) to descend [auxiliary essere]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “calare”, in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • “calare” in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • “calare” in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • “calare” in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • calare in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
  • “calare”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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calāre

  1. inflection of calō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Neapolitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin chalāre (“to let down”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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calare

  1. to lower
  2. to descend

Conjugation

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References

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  • Rocco, Emmanuele (1882), “calare”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano‎[1]

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaˈlaɾe/ [kaˈla.ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -aɾe
  • Syllabification: ca‧la‧re

Verb

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calare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of calar