calmar

calmar (plural calmars)

1. A squid (the mollusk).
   • 1792, George Louis Le Clerc, Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History, page 126:

     During the summer, he studied calmars at Lisbon, but found no appearance of any roe, nor any reservoir which appeared to be destined for the reception of the seminal liquor; and it was in the middle of December, that he began to discern the first traces of a new vessel replete with a milty juice.

From calma.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəlˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kalˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)
• Hyphenation: cal‧mar

calmar (first-person singular present calmo, first-person singular preterite calmí, past participle calmat)

1. (transitive) to calm
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to calm down

   Encara fa sol i el mar s'ha calmat. ― Yet it's sunny and the sea has become calm.

• calmable
• calmant
• calmat

From Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed, ink pen”).

• IPA^(key): /kal.maʁ/

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calmar m (plural calmars)

1. squid (the mollusk)

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

calmar

1. to calm
2. to still

calmar (first-person singular present calmo, first-person singular preterite calmei, past participle calmado)

1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) alternative form of acalmar
2. (transitive, colloquial) to beat

calmar m (plural calmares)

1. alternative form of calamar

• calamar

Borrowed from French calmar. Doublet of călimară.

• IPA^(key): /kalˈmar/

calmar m (plural calmari)

1. squid

From calma +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /kalˈmaɾ/ [kalˈmaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cal‧mar

calmar (first-person singular present calmo, first-person singular preterite calmé, past participle calmado)

1. (transitive) to calm, to still (to limit and lessen in motion and disturbance)
2. (transitive) to calm, soothe, assuage, to ease, to appease, to quell, to allay, to settle, to relieve (to make lessen in intensity)
3. (transitive, figurative) to defuse (e.g. a situation or problem, tension or conflict, a crisis)
4. (transitive, figurative) to quench, to quell (one's thirst)
5. (transitive, figurative) to cool
6. (transitive) to talk down, to talk off the ledge
7. (intransitive) to subside, abate
8. (intransitive) to steady (often used when talking to an animal one is riding like a horse)
9. (reflexive) to calm down, to settle down, to quiet down, to calm oneself
10. (reflexive) to cool off, to cool it, to chill, to chill out
11. (reflexive) to subside

• acalmar (obsolete)

• “calmar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024