pleca
Catalan
Etymology
Unknown.
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “pleca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Latvian
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin plicāre, present active infinitive of plicō (“I fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait, to weave”). Compare Aromanian plec, plicari. The semantic shift from "fold" to "leave" may be because to Proto-Romanian speakers, the word became associated with the folding up of tents to leave and move, especially as the pastoral lifestyle was important in their culture (cf. also the Latin expression plicāre tentōria, in the military context of folding up tents in a camp to move on, or French plier bagage). In contrast, Iberian Romance languages developed the opposite meaning from the same Latin word; compare Spanish llegar (“to arrive”), Portuguese chegar (“to arrive”); here, naval tradition was more important and the meaning may have come from folding sails when arriving at port. Doublet of plia, which was borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pleˈka/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: ple‧ca
Audio (file)
Verb
a pleca (third-person singular present pleacă, past participle plecat) 1st conj.
Conjugation
infinitive | a pleca | ||||||
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gerund | plecând | ||||||
past participle | plecat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | plec | pleci | pleacă | plecăm | plecați | pleacă | |
imperfect | plecam | plecai | pleca | plecam | plecați | plecau | |
simple perfect | plecai | plecași | plecă | plecarăm | plecarăți | plecară | |
pluperfect | plecasem | plecaseși | plecase | plecaserăm | plecaserăți | plecaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să plec | să pleci | să plece | să plecăm | să plecați | să plece | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | pleacă | plecați | |||||
negative | nu pleca | nu plecați |
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- pleca in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Silesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplɛt͡sa/
- Rhymes: -ɛt͡sa
- Syllabification: ple‧ca
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpleka/ [ˈple.ka]
- Rhymes: -eka
- Syllabification: ple‧ca
Noun
pleca f (plural plecas)
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Further reading
- “pleca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014