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The origin of this name is Spanish, taken from Latin "California", which means "place of hot ovens".

Etymologically:

Calis (probably an abbreviation of calor,caloris or calidus)--- calor (heat, hot)

fornum --- horno (oven)

ia --- ia (a suffix in Latin and Spanish for places)

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