calo
Portuguese, noun
calo is spelled C-A-L-O (4 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 29,263rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “callus (hardened area of the skin)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of calar. With an accent, caló is a different word: “Caló (language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “porção dura da pele que se tornou grossa e rígida por atrito repetido”.
What does calo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecallus (hardened area of the skin)
- 2
masculinecallus (material occurring in bone fractures)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of calar
noun
- 1
masculineCaló (language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. linguagem dos ciganos da Espanha 2. nome que os ciganos da Espanha dão a qualquer indivíduo masculino da sua raça 3. variedade de arroz indiano
noun: 1. porção dura da pele que se tornou grossa e rígida por atrito repetido 2. rigidez em superfícies de plantas ou folhas
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 calo
- calós plural
- calos plural
- callo alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to calo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calo in Portuguese?
calo appears 1.3 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).