descalço

Meaning

Adj

1. barefoot, barefooted
2. discalced

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of descalçar

Hyphenated as

des‧cal‧ço

Pronounced as (IPA)

/desˈkaw.su/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese descalço, from Vulgar Latin *discalceus, itself either from a shortening of discalceātus, from Late Latin discalceō, or from Latin dis- + calceus. Cognate with Galician and Spanish descalzo, Catalan descalç, Occitan descauç, French déchaux, Italian scalzo and Romanian desculț.

Sentences

Quem semeia espinhos , descalço não vai .

Who sows thorns, barefoot does not go.