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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)
- (archaic) to chase; to give chase to; to dog
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
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