usca

Most likely inherited from Latin exsūcāre, present active infinitive of exsūcō, or less likely, from a Vulgar Latin root *usticāre, from ustus, from ūrō, although the normal phonetic result in Romanian would have been *usteca or *utsca, after which the intervocalic -t- disappeared; in this view, the form usuc is a modern one that replaced an original form analogically (compare Calabrian uscare (“to burn”)).^[1] Cognate to Aromanian usãc, uscari, Megleno-Romanian usc, uscari, Istro-Romanian uscu.

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a usca (third-person singular present usucă, past participle uscat) 1st conj.

1. to dry

• uscare
• uscat
• uscăciune

• seca
• zvânta
• zbici