calcule

• enPR: kăl′kyo͞ol
• (contemporary Received Pronunciation; India) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.kjuːl/

  (conservative Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.kjuːl/

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.kjul/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.kjʉːl/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛk.kjʉːl/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈkal.kjʉl/
• Rhymes: -ælkjuːl
• Hyphenation: cal‧cule

Borrowed from French calcul, derived from Latin calculus (“reckoning”). Doublet of calculus.

calcule (plural calcules)

1. (obsolete) A reckoning; computation. [1601–1754]
   • 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:

     the generall calcule which was made in the last perambulation exceeded eight millions

Inherited from Middle English calcule / calculen / calclen, derived from Old French calculer (compare French calculer, Spanish calcular, Portuguese calcular, Italian calculàre), derived from Latin calculāre (“reckon, calculate”). Doublet of calculate.

calcule (third-person singular simple present calcules, present participle calculing, simple past and past participle calculed)

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete; especially astronomy and astrology) To calculate, reckon. [1377–1559]
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde] (in Middle English), [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book I, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxvii, recto, column 2, lines 71–75:

     So whā this Calcas knewe by calculing ¶ And eke by the anſwere of this god Apollo ¶ That grekes ſhulde ſuch a people bryng ¶ Thorowe which that Troye muſt be tordo ¶ He caſt anon out of the towne to go

     So when this Calkas knew by calkulynge, ¶ And ek by answer of this Apollo, ¶ That Grekes sholden swiche a peple brynge, ¶ Thorugh which that Troye moste ben fordo, ¶ He caste anon out of the town to go.

• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “calcule”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 762, column 1.
• “calcule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “calcule”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 762, column 1.

• “calcule”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA^(key): /kal.kyl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophone: calcules
• Hyphenation: cal‧cule

calcule

1. inflection of calculer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kalˈkule/ [kɑɫˈku.lɪ]
• Rhymes: -ule
• Hyphenation: cal‧cu‧le

calcule

1. inflection of calcular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkaɫ.kʊ.ɫɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkal.ku.le]
• Hyphenation: cal‧cu‧le

calcule

1. vocative singular of calculus

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -uli, (Portuguese) -ulɨ
• Hyphenation: cal‧cu‧le

calcule

1. inflection of calcular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

calcule

1. vocative singular of calc
2. nominative/accusative/genitive/dative indefinite plural of calcul

• IPA^(key): /kalˈkule/ [kalˈku.le]
• Rhymes: -ule
• Syllabification: cal‧cu‧le

calcule

1. inflection of calcular:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative