Calzò

Calzò is the third-person singular passato remoto form of the Italian verb calzare, meaning to put on footwear or to fit with shoes. In modern usage, passato remoto is mostly confined to literary, historical, or formal narration, so calzò appears primarily in older texts or in historical novels. The equivalent meaning in common speech is expressed with the passato prossimo, ha calzato.

Conjugation context: calzare is a regular -are verb. Its forms include io calzai, tu calzasti, lui calzò, noi calzammo, voi calzaste, loro calzarono in the passato remoto; present tense forms are calzo, calzi, calza, calziamo, calzate, calzano; imperfect is calzava, calzavi, calzava, calzavamo, calzavate, calzavano; past participle is calzato.

Etymology and related terms: calzare derives from Latin calceus, meaning a shoe or boot, with the root seen in related Italian terms such as calzatura (footwear) and calzolaio (shoemaker). The term reflects the historical importance of footwear in everyday life and in literature as a vivid action.

Usage notes: calzò can appear in descriptions of action scenes or character interactions in historical narratives, where the author aims to convey a precise past action. In contemporary prose, writers often choose the present perfect or other tenses for smoother narration, reserving calzò for stylistic or archaising effects.

See also: calzatura; calzolaio; calzare.