escotar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.koˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

From escot (“an individual's share of the cost”) +‎ -ar.

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotí, past participle escotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to pay one's share of the cost

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.koˈtaɾ]

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotí, past participle escotat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to make clothing with décolletage that shows cleavage
2. to wear clothing with décolletage that shows cleavage
3. to remove the top portion of one's clothing

   Synonym: espitregar-se

• escot (“décolletage, cleavage”)

Probably borrowed from Catalan escotar, or directly from Old French escot (“payment”); from Proto-Germanic *skutą (“that which is thrown, shot, projectile, bullet, missile”).

• IPA^(key): /eskɔˈtaɾ/

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotei, past participle escotado)

1. to pay one's share of the cost

• escote

From Old Galician-Portuguese escotar, already documented in the 13th century.^[1] Perhaps from cota (“chainmail”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).

• IPA^(key): /eskɔˈtaɾ/

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotei, past participle escotado)

1. to make low-cut clothing

• escote

Either from coto (“stump”), or from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“shoot”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈtaɾ/

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escotei, past participle escotado)

1. to trim; to prune; to cut out the tip of a plant

   Synonym: espodar

• acotar (“to trim”)
• coto (“stump”)
• decotar (“to trim”)
• escote

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escotar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escotar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (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

• escoutar (Mistralian spelling)

Inherited from Latin ascultāre, variant of auscultāre.

• IPA^(key): /eskuˈta/

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• IPA^(key): /eskoˈtaɾ/ [es.koˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧co‧tar

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, first-person singular preterite escoté, past participle escotado)

1. (transitive) to make low-cut clothing
2. (intransitive) to pay one's share of the cost

• “escotar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28