descalzo

See also: descalzó

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/ [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)

1. barefoot

Related terms

• descalzar

 

Verb

descalzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of descalzar

Further reading

• “descalzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014