1. cāla — Lewis & Short
cāla, ae, f.ka=lon,
I a piece or billet of wood: scinde, puero calam ut caleas, i. e. scinde fustes et fac focum, Lucil. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 1 (Fragm. Inc. 139).
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cāla
cāla · f
a piece
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What it meant
2. cala — Walde–Hofmann
cala, -ae f. „trockenes Holz, Brennholz* (seit Lucil, davon càlamentum n. „verdorrtes Holz am Weinstock“ Colum.): entlehnt aus gr. xödov, gew. Pl. kàÀa „Holz* (aus *xafekov „Brennholz“ zu kalw, vgl. xülorÜmoc „Specht“ und vl. gr-illyr. xaoróv- EüXov "Adupäves, wenn = xaugtöv, v. Blumenthal Hesychstud. 18. 39), nicht urverwandt mit abg. kols ,Pflock" (Wz. *gel- „spalten*, Berneker 551, Walde-P. I 438), ai. kilah … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cala, p. 167]
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