cálamo

See also: calamo

Galician

Partes dunha pluma:
1. vexilo
2. raque
3. barbas
4. hiporraque
5. cálamo (calamus)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”).

Noun

cálamo m (plural cálamos)

1. (ornithology) calamus, quill (of a feather)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.mu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.mu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈka.la.mo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lɐ.mu/

• Hyphenation: cá‧la‧mo

Noun

cálamo m (plural cálamos)

1. object made from a reed, such as a pen or arrow
2. sweet flag; calamus (Acorus calamus, a perennial wetland plant with an aromatic medicinal root)

   Synonym: ácoro

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”). Cf. carámbano, inherited from a diminutive form of the Latin.

Noun

cálamo m (plural cálamos)

1. a reed pen, used to write with ink in antiquity
2. (botany) sweet flag or calamus, a plant in the genus Acorus

Further reading

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