descalzo

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.

• IPA^(key): /desˈkalθo/ [d̪esˈkal̟.θo] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /desˈkalso/ [d̪esˈkal.so] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -alθo (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• Rhymes: -also (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: des‧cal‧zo

descalzo (feminine descalza, masculine plural descalzos, feminine plural descalzas)

1. barefoot

descalzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of descalzar

• “descalzo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025