tocilar
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tocilar m (plural tocilari)
- knifegrinder (person who sharpens knives)
- (figurative, derogatory) crammer (student who learns mechanically and without understanding)
Usage notes edit
Tocilar has been used as an equivalent to English nerd (“person involved in unconventional subcultures”) in translated media, though this is not a sense that would be found in normal usage.
Declension edit
Declension of tocilar
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tocilar | tocilarul | (niște) tocilari | tocilarii |
genitive/dative | (unui) tocilar | tocilarului | (unor) tocilari | tocilarilor |
vocative | tocilarule | tocilarilor |
References edit
- tocilar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1983), Dicționarul Limbii Române[1], volume 11, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 379