culca

Romanian

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.?

Proto-Italic *s(t)lokos

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin locō

Latin collocāre

Romanian culca

Inherited from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Compare Aromanian culcu.

a culca (third-person singular present culcă, past participle culcat, third-person subjunctive culce) 1st conjugation

(reflexive) to lie down, recline
Pacientul se culcă pe spate pentru a fi examinat de doctor.
The patient is lying down on his back to be examined by the doctor.
(reflexive) to go to bed
(reflexive, euphemistic) to sleep with
(transitive) to lay down, place horizontally
a culca la pământ
to knock to the ground

Pentru a muta stâlpul a trebuit mai întâi să-l culcăm.
In order to move the pole, we first had to place it horizontally.

conjugation of culca (first conjugation, no infix)

“culca”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026