caler

Inherited from Latin calēre. Compare Occitan caler.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈlɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈlə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [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

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 give up, 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, present active infinitive of caleō. Compare French chaloir, Franco-Provençal chalêr, Catalan caldre, caler.

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caler

1. to be necessary

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 41.

From Latin calēre, present active infinitive of caleō.

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.

• Ladino: kaler
• Occitan: caler

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