leucă

See also: leuca, Leuca, and 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)

1. 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), 2004–2026