descalzo
See also: descalzó
Spanish
Etymology
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/ [d̪esˈkal̟.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /desˈkalso/ [d̪esˈkal.so]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -alθo
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -also
- Syllabification: des‧cal‧zo
Adjective
descalzo (feminine descalza, masculine plural descalzos, feminine plural descalzas)
- barefoot
Related terms
- descalzar
Verb
descalzo
- first-person singular present indicative of descalzar
Further reading
- “descalzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014