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Yes. The word calo is a Scrabble US word. The word calo is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (5 found)

ALCO,CALO,COAL,COLA,LOCA,

3-letter words (4 found)

CAL,COL,LAC,OCA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AL,LA,LO,

You can make 12 words from calo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of calo

calo aclo clao lcao alco laco caol acol coal ocal aocl oacl cloa lcoa cola ocla loca olca aloc laoc aolc oalc loac olac

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Definitions and meaning of calo

calo

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈka.lu]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈka.lo]

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

French

Etymology

From Caló caló, self-designated gypsy slang.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.lo/

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. (slang) Caló; gypsy

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology 1

Attested since circa 1390. From Latin callum (“callus”), from Proto-Indo-European *kal (“hard”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑlʊ]

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. callus (hardened area of the skin)
    • 20th century, a folk song (profanity):
  2. callus (material occurring in bone fractures)

References

  • “calo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “calo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “calo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “calo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “calo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Cantonese 查佬 as 查 +‎ 佬.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃalo]
  • Hyphenation: ca‧lo

Noun

calo (first-person possessive caloku, second-person possessive calomu, third-person possessive calonya)

  1. (colloquial) passenger recruiter, ticket scalper, broker.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “calo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.lo/
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Hyphenation: cà‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from calare +‎ -o.

Noun

calo m (plural cali)

  1. (archaic) fall
    Synonym: caduta
  2. (figurative) drop, loss, decrease
    Synonyms: caduta, diminuzione, ribasso, riduzione, perdita
    Antonyms: aumento, incremento

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calare

Anagrams

  • cola, colà, laco, loca

Latin

Alternative forms

  • kalō

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kalō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”).

Cognate with Latin clāmō, clārus, classis, concilium, Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Old English hlōwan (“to make a loud noise, roar, bellow”) (whence English low (“to moo”)). Another possible cognate is Proto-Slavic *kolkolъ (“bell”). Not related to call.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.loː/, [ˈkäɫ̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.lo/, [ˈkäːlo]

Verb

calō (present infinitive calāre, supine calātum); first conjugation, no perfect stem

  1. to call, announce solemnly, call out
Conjugation

Due to the lack of active perfect system forms, the phrase "X called Y" is done via "[nominative of Y] est calātus per [ablative of X]"

Derived terms
Related terms
  • calātōrius

References

  • “calo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

Unknown. One possibility is a substrate.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.loː/, [ˈkäːɫ̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.lo/, [ˈkäːlo]

Noun

cālō m (genitive cālōnis); third declension

  1. a military servant
Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

  • “calo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “calo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • calo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “calo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “calo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “calo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calō (present infinitive calāre, perfect active calāvī, supine calātum); first conjugation

  1. Alternative form of chalō
Conjugation

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • callo (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -alu
  • Hyphenation: ca‧lo

Etymology 1

From Latin callum (“callus”), from Proto-Indo-European *kal (“hard”).

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. callus (hardened area of the skin)
  2. callus (material occurring in bone fractures)
    Synonym: calo ósseo
Derived terms
  • pisar no calo de alguém
  • ter calo no coração

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

References

Further reading

  • “calo” in iDicionário Aulete.
  • “calo” in Dicionário inFormal.
  • “calo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
  • “calo” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  • “calo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkalo/ [ˈka.lo]
  • Rhymes: -alo
  • Syllabification: ca‧lo

Etymology 1

Deverbal from calar.

Noun

calo m (plural calos)

  1. the soundable depth of a body of water

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

calo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of calar

Further reading

  • “calo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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