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Yes. The word calx is a Scrabble US word. The word calx is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word calx is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

CALX,

3-letter words (3 found)

CAL,LAC,LAX,

2-letter words (3 found)

AL,AX,LA,

You can make 7 words from calx according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of calx

calx aclx clax lcax alcx lacx caxl acxl cxal xcal axcl xacl clxa lcxa cxla xcla lxca xlca alxc laxc axlc xalc lxac xlac

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Definitions and meaning of calx

calx

Etymology

From Latin calx (“lime”). Doublet of cauk and chalk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kælks/
  • Rhymes: -ælks

Noun

calx (plural calces or calxes)

  1. (now chiefly historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
  2. In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kalks/, [käɫ̪ks̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kalks/, [kälks]

Etymology 1

Possibly from Ancient Greek χάλιξ (khálix, “pebble”), in any case of substrate origin.

Noun

calx f (genitive calcis); third declension

  1. limestone
  2. chalk
  3. the finish line
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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Etymology 2

Uncertain, with possibilities including:

  • An extension of the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)kel- (“to bend”).
  • Non-Indo-European (possibly Etruscan) origin; however, de Vaan notes the lack of a "concrete comparandum" for this.
  • From Proto-Indo-European *klHk(ᵂ)-(n)-, related to Serbo-Croatian kuk (“thigh, hip”), Bulgarian кълка (kǎlka, “hip”), Russian колк (kolk, “bony stump”), Latvian kulksnis (“hock”), Lithuanian kulksnis (“ankle”), Old Prussian culczi (“hip”)

Noun

calx f (genitive calcis); third declension

  1. (anatomy) heel (of the foot)
    Synonyms: tālus, (Medieval Latin) tālō
Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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References

References

  • (limestone) “calx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • (heel) “calx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “calx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • calx 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)
  • calx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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