escollo

== Catalan == === Verb === escollo first-person singular present indicative of escollar == Galician == === Verb === escollo first-person singular present indicative of escoller == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Italian scoglio, from Vulgar Latin *scoculum (possibly through a Gallo-Italic intermediate), from Latin scopulus, from Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos, “lookout place: hence peak, headland, promontory”). Compare Catalan escull. === Pronunciation === Syllabification: es‧co‧llo === Noun === escollo m (plural escollos) reef, shoal (figuratively) pitfall, stumbling block === References === === Further reading === “escollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025