calle
See also: callé and Calle
Asturian
Alternative forms
- cai, caye
Etymology
From Latin callis, callem.
Noun
calle f (plural calles)
- street
Italian
Etymology
From Latin callem (“path”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkal.le/
- Rhymes: -alle
- Hyphenation: càl‧le
Noun
calle f (plural calli)
- (archaic) (narrow) path
- Synonyms: sentiero, stradina
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto X”, in Inferno, lines 1–3:
- Or sen va per un secreto calle, ¶ tra ’l muro de la terra e li martìri, ¶ lo mio maestro, e io dopo le spalle.
- Now onward goes, along a narrow path between the torments and the city wall, my Master, and I follow at his back.
- (archaic) route, way, road
- Synonyms: cammino, tragitto
- early 14th century, Dante, “Canto I”, in Inferno, lines 16–18:
- […] guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de’ raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle.
- Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, vested already with that planet's rays which leadeth others right by every road.
- (Venice) alley (especially in Venice)
Anagrams
- -cella, cella
Latin
Verb
callē
- second-person singular present active imperative of calleō
References
- “calle”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkaʝe/ [ˈka.ʝe]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈkaʎe/ [ˈka.ʎe]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkaʃe/ [ˈka.ʃe]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkaʒe/ [ˈka.ʒe]
- (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -aʝe
- (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -aʎe
- (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -aʃe
- (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -aʒe
- Syllabification: ca‧lle
Etymology 1
From Latin callis, callem.
Alternative forms
- c/ (abbreviation)
Noun
calle f (plural calles)
- street
- Synonyms: calzada, pista
- lane (in a pool or racetrack, but not a highway)
- Synonym: carril
Hyponyms
- (street): alameda, avenida, bulevar, callejón, camino, carretera, senda, sendero, travesía
Derived terms
- a la puta calle
- a pie de calle
- azotacalles
- bocacalle
- callecita
- calle de boxes
- calle de garajes
- calle de rodaje
- calleja
- callejero
- callejón
- callejuela
- calle sin salida
- correcalles
- echar a la calle
- encallar
- en situación de calle
- entre las calles
- estar al cabo de la calle
- mujer de la calle
- poner de patitas en la calle
Descendants
- → Basque: kale
- → Baure: kaye
- → Hiligaynon: kalye
- → Tagalog: kalye
Etymology 2
See callar
Verb
calle
- inflection of callar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “calle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
- lleca
Tarantino
Adjective
calle
- warm