Noun: calzada
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | calzada |
| Plural f | calzadas |
Sample Sentences
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estando ena villa de padrom ena calçada noua que chaman do juyz (being at the town of Padrón, on the new paved street they call of the judge) [1318, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 146:]
Nouns inflected like calzada
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese calçada (independently attested in both corpora), from Vulgar Latin *calciāta (“paved road”), probably from calx (“limestone”). Cognate with Portuguese calçada and Spanish calzada. See: Portuguese Nouns '
calçada', Spanish Nouns '
calzada'.
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