cálamo

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  calamus, quill (of a feather)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) object made from a reed, such as a pen or arrow
 * 2) sweet flag; calamus, a perennial wetland plant with an aromatic medicinal root

Etymology
. Cf. , inherited from a diminutive form of the Latin.

Noun

 * 1) a reed pen, used to write with ink in antiquity
 * 2)  sweet flag or calamus, a plant in the genus