descăleca

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descăleca

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *discaballicāre, from dis- + Late Latin caballicāre, from Latin caballus (“horse”). Compare Aromanian discalic, discãlicari or Albanian shkalkoj. Sense 2 may have been influenced by a migratory or nomadic Central Asian people that entered lands occupied by Romanians, as a similar meaning of choosing a place to set up and live temporarily exists in some Turanian cultures for the term “dismount”.

verb a descăleca 1st conjugation · descalecă · descălecat · descalece · a descăleca · descălecând

intransitive to get off a horse, dismount, alight
Opposite: încăleca
historical, transitive to establish a new settlement
Similar: întemeia
intransitive, obsolete to settle
Similar: se stabili

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@misc{desca_leca_2026,
  title = {descăleca},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/desc%C4%83leca},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}