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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): (Spain) /desˈkalθo/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /desˈkalso/
- (Spain) Rhymes: -alθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -also
- Syllabification: des‧cal‧zo
Adjective
descalzo (feminine descalza, masculine plural descalzos, feminine plural descalzas)
- barefoot
Related terms
Verb
descalzo
- first-person singular present indicative of descalzar
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