The story
- Latin · derived fromcalx“pebble”
- Spanish · borrowed fromcaliche
- English todaycaliche
From Spanish caliche, from Latin calx (“pebble”); compare chalk.
Words from the same roots
Latincalx all →
calciumchalkcausewaycalcitecalcaneumcalcographycalthemitecaltropcalx
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.