calça
Portuguese, noun
calça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “trousers, pants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of calçar. Without its cedilla, calca is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “peça de vestuário para as pernas”.
What does calça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetrousers, pants
- 2
femininering (on a mushroom)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. peça de vestuário para as pernas 2. anel (cogumelos) 3. calço 4. marca feita com uma fita de tecido no sanco de uma galinha para a diferenciar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of calça
- calças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to calça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calça in Portuguese?
calça appears 14 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).