leucă
Romanian
Alternative forms
- леукэ (leucă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian lőcs, from German Leuchse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlew.kə/, (alternative) /leˈu.kə/
- Rhymes: -ewkə, -ukə
- Hyphenation: leu‧că
Noun
leucă f (plural leuci)
- a curved wooden beam connecting a ladder wagon’s rims to its axletree for support
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | leucă | leuca | leuci | leucile | |
| genitive-dative | leuci | leucii | leuci | leucilor | |
| vocative | leucă, leuco | leucilor | |||
Derived terms
- leucaș
Further reading
- “leucă”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025