calças

== Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: cal‧ças === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese calças, from Latin calceus (“shoe”). ==== Noun ==== calças f pl (plural only) (plural only) pants (garment covering the body from the waist downwards) plural of calça ===== Usage notes ===== The plural is preferred to the singular except when referring to a single pair of pants not being worn. Referring to a pair being worn, both the singular and plural are used colloquially. ===== Derived terms ===== calçazonas (augmentative) calção calcinha ===== Related terms ===== calção calçar ===== Descendants ===== → Makalero: kalsa, kaalsa (“trousers”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== calças second-person singular present indicative of calçar === Further reading === “calças”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “calças”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026