Alternative forms

• calçar (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#CALZARCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#CALZAR calçar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#CALZARCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#CALZAR calceāre.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Galician/aɾ#CALZARCategory:Rhymes:Galician/aɾ/2 syllables#CALZAR
• Hyphenation: cal‧zar

Verb

calzar (first-person singular present calzo, first-person singular preterite calcei, past participle calzado)Category:Galician lemmas#CALZARCategory:Galician verbs#CALZARCategory:Galician verbs ending in -ar#CALZARCategory:Galician verbs with c-z alternation#CALZARCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#CALZARCategory:Pages with entries#CALZARCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALZAR

1. to wear or put on shoes
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 667:

     calçaronllj hũas calças daquel meesmo pano

     they put on him some breeches of the same cloth

     Category:Galician terms with quotations#CALZAR

2. to wedge, chock

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “calçar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “calzar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “calzar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “calzar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calzar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “calzar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#CALZARCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#CALZAR calceāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalˈθaɾ/ [kal̟ˈθaɾ] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CALZARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CALZAR
• IPA^(key): /kalˈsaɾ/ [kalˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CALZARCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CALZAR

• Audio (Colombia):

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  Category:Spanish terms with audio pronunciation#CALZAR
• Rhymes: -aɾCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ#CALZARCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/2 syllables#CALZAR
• Syllabification: cal‧zar

Verb

calzar (first-person singular present calzo, first-person singular preterite calcé, past participle calzado)Category:Spanish lemmas#CALZARCategory:Spanish verbs#CALZARCategory:Spanish verbs ending in -ar#CALZARCategory:Spanish verbs with c-z alternation#CALZARCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CALZARCategory:Pages with entries#CALZARCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALZAR

1. to wear or put on shoes
2. to be or have (a shoe size)

   ¿Cuánto calzas?

   What's your shoe size?

   Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CALZAR

   Yo calzo 44. ― I wear size 44.Category:Spanish terms with usage examples#CALZAR

3. to wedge, to chock
4. (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#CALZAR) to wear, to slip into
   • 2017 January, “Piornal, el pueblo que echa a los ladrones lanzándoles nabos”, in Frontera.info‎:

     Su misión es calzarse una armadura de 40 kilos cubierta de cintas de colores y una máscara de aspecto demoníaco parar recorrer las calles con un tamboril y soportar la lluvia de nabos de gran calibre.

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     Category:Spanish terms with quotations#CALZARCategory:Requests for translations of Spanish quotations#CALZAR

5. (reflexiveCategory:Spanish reflexive verbs#CALZAR) (slangCategory:Spanish slang#CALZAR) to have sex with

Further reading

• “calzar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025