calcaire

 

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calcaire

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Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius, from calx.

• IPA^(key): /kal.kɛʁ/

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calcaire m (plural calcaires)

1. limestone

calcaire (plural calcaires)

1. calcareous

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

From calc (“caulk”, verb) +‎ -aire (agent noun suffix).

calcaire m (genitive singular calcaire, nominative plural calcairí)

1. caulker
2. caulking-iron
3. glutton

• (caulking-iron): calcóid f
• (glutton): béiceadán, blaochán, bleadrachán, cíocrachán, craosaire, gainéan, glutaire, gorb, graoisín, longaire, málaeir, slogaire, suthaire

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “calcaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN