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picaj

“picaj” is a Romanian word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. dive
  2. freefall (severe, uncontrolled decline)

In Romanian

  1. manevră de zbor a unui avion în jos pe o traiectorie aproape verticală.

Etymology

From pica (“to dive”) + -aj. Seemingly a pseudo-Gallicism, since French piquage (“pricking, stitching”) is semantically unrelated, while piqué (“dive”) is used.

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