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dehoca.

to sacrifice an animal

6 characters3 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

verb
  1. to sacrifice an animal

    archaic · regional
  2. to break or tear to pieces; tear up

    archaic · regional
  3. to drain of energy, exhaust, tire, wear out

    archaic · regional
Where this word comes from

Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin *devocāre, from *devacuāre, from Latin vacuus, or from the form dezvoca, from a root *disvocāre. Compare Aromanian dizvoc, dizvucari, see also Romanian desfăca. Cf. Logudorese Sardinian bogare (“to take out, extract”), Campidanese debogada, Old French voiier (“to empty; take/bring out; clear, rid”), Gascon Occitan desboucà (“spill, scatter, pour”). Alternatively, the word may simply be an expressive creation related to dăbăla, dehula.

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