descalzo
See also: descalzó
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *discalceus, itself either from a shortening of discalceātus, from Late Latin discalceō, or from Latin dis- + calceus. Cognate with Galician descalzo, Portuguese descalço, Catalan descalç, Occitan descauç, French déchaux, Italian scalzo and Romanian desculț.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /desˈkalθo/ [d̪esˈkal̟.θo] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /desˈkalso/ [d̪esˈkal.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -alθo (Spain)
- Rhymes: -also (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: des‧cal‧zo
Adjective
descalzo (feminine descalza, masculine plural descalzos, feminine plural descalzas)
Related terms
Verb
descalzo
- first-person singular present indicative of descalzar
Further reading
- “descalzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024