calza

• calça (reintegrationist)

• Hyphenation: cal‧za

From Old Galician-Portuguese calça (13th century), from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”).

calza f (plural calzas)

1. (rare, usually in the plural) breeches, hoses
   • 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 hoses of the same cloth

   Synonyms: calzón, osa

2. (rare, usually in the plural) stocking; socks
   • 1417, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 76:

     Iten que se vendan os çapatos en esta maneira: os çapatos de corda para sobre calça acostumados a trese branquas et hũu coroado et os çapatos de ome de pẽe et de lavrador trése branquas et hũu coroado

     Item, that they sell the shoes in this manner: the usual laced shoes for over the sock, thirteen whites and a crown each one, and the men's shoes for peons of workers, thirteen whites and a crown

   Synonym: media

calza

1. inflection of calzar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “calça”, 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), “calças”, 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), “calza”, 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), “calza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “calza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “calza”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈkal.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -altsa
• Hyphenation: càl‧za

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”).

calza f (plural calze)

1. sock
2. stocking

• calzare
• calcare
• calcagno

• → Greek: κάλτσα (káltsa)
• → Arabic: كلسة (kalsa)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

calza

1. inflection of calzare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalθa/ [ˈkal̟.θa] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkalsa/ [ˈkal.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -alθa (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -alsa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: cal‧za

Inherited from Old Spanish calça, from Early Medieval Latin calcea, from Latin calceus (“shoe”).

calza f (plural calzas)

1. stocking, sock

   Synonym: media

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

calza

1. inflection of calzar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “calza”, 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
• calza on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es