Noun: calle
Gender: m
Hyphenation: càl‧le
| Singular m | calle |
| Plural m | calli |
Sample Sentences
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Or sen va per un secreto calle, ¶ tra ’l muro de la terra e li martìri, ¶ lo mio maestro, e io dopo le spalle. (Now onward goes, along a narrow path between the torments and the city wall, my Master, and I follow at his back.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto X”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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[…] guardai in alto e vidi le sue spalle ¶ vestite già de’ raggi del pianeta ¶ che mena dritto altrui per ogne calle. (Upward I looked, and I beheld its shoulders, vested already with that planet's rays which leadeth others right by every road.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 16–18; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like calle
rigeneratore,
biancomangiare,
interneurone,
tiomersale,
chemiorecettore,
posteggiatore,
concelebrante,
pleistocene,
kudu maggiore,
sepide,
setale,
segone,
sedere,
sedime,
sedile,
gremiale,
chiarificatore,
savore,
sapere,
sapone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin callem (“path”). See: Latin Nouns '
callis'.
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