The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκᾰλόγηρος“venerable”
- Italian · derived fromcaloiero
- French · borrowed fromcaloyer
- English todaycaloyer
From French caloyer, from Italian caloiero, from Ancient Greek κᾰλόγηρος (kălógēros, “venerable”), from κᾰλός (kălós, “beautiful”) + γῆρας (gêras, “old age”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.