escotar

== Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈta] IPA(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈta] IPA(key): (Valencia) [es.koˈtaɾ] Rhymes: -a(ɾ) === Etymology 1 === From escot (“an individual's share of the cost”) +‎ -ar. ==== Verb ==== escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotí, past participle escotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/ to pay one's share of the cost ===== Conjugation ===== === Etymology 2 === Uncertain, but possibly from cota (“coat of arms”), from the resemblance of the shape of early décolletage to the shape of the bottom of a coat of arms. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈta] IPA(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈta] IPA(key): (Valencia) [es.koˈtaɾ] ==== Verb ==== escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotí, past participle escotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/ to make clothing with décolletage that shows cleavage to wear clothing with décolletage that shows cleavage to remove the top portion of one's clothing Synonym: espitregar-se ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== escot (“décolletage, cleavage”) == Galician == === Etymology 1 === Probably borrowed from Catalan escotar, or directly from Old French escot (“payment”); from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown, shot, projectile, bullet, missile”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /eskɔˈtaɾ/ ==== Verb ==== escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotei, past participle escotado) to pay one's share of the cost ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== escote === Etymology 2 === From Old Galician-Portuguese escotar, already documented in the 13th century. Perhaps from cota (“chainmail”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /eskɔˈtaɾ/ ==== Verb ==== escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotei, past participle escotado) to make low-cut clothing ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== escote === Etymology 3 === Either from coto (“stump”), or from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“shoot”). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /eskoˈtaɾ/ ==== Verb ==== escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotei, past participle escotado) to trim; to prune; to cut out the tip of a plant Synonym: espodar ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Related terms ===== acotar (“to trim”) coto (“stump”) decotar (“to trim”) escote === References === Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “escotar”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “escotar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escotar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escotar (vestido)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escotar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Occitan == === Alternative forms === escoutar (Mistralian spelling) === Etymology === Inherited from Latin ascultāre, variant of auscultāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /eskuˈta/ === Verb === escotar to listen ==== Inflection ==== == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /eskoˈtaɾ/ [es.koˈt̪aɾ] Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: es‧co‧tar === Verb === escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escoté, past participle escotado) (transitive) to make low-cut clothing (intransitive) to pay one's share of the cost ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “escotar”, 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