tocilar

Romanian

Etymology

From tocilă +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to.t͡ʃiˈlar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: to‧ci‧lar

Noun

tocilar m (plural tocilari)

1. knifegrinder (person who sharpens knives)
2. (figurative, derogatory) crammer (student who learns mechanically and without understanding)
   1. (loosely) nerd (one more involved in studying than in social activities)

Usage notes

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

Declension of tocilar

	singular		plural
	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

• 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