encalzar

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *incalciāre, *incalceāre,[1] from Latin calcem (heel). Compare English hot on someone's heels. Cognate with Catalan and Portuguese encalçar, Italian incalzare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /enkalˈθaɾ/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /enkalˈsaɾ/
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: en‧cal‧zar

Verb

encalzar (first-person singular present encalzo, first-person singular preterite encalcé, past participle encalzado)

  1. (archaic) to chase; to give chase to; to dog

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ encalzar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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