scăpăta

Etymology
Possibly or  (which meant "decapitate" in its attested form, but the Romance descendants may derive from an unattested sense of "to conclude, finish, reach the end of" which developed later, or possibly "to decrease, diminish"), ultimately from. Compare 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, also Megleno-Romanian , Old French and Provençal , from Latin.

Verb

 * 1)  to decline, go down, go under, set, be on the wane
 * 2)  to lose one's wealth, to become impoverished