escoltar

Inherited from Latin ascultāre, variant of auscultāre. Doublet of auscultar, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kulˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.kolˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.kolˈtaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

escoltar (first-person singular present escolto, first-person singular preterite escoltí, past participle escoltat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /o/

1. (transitive) to listen to, to pay attention to
2. (transitive, figurative) to heed, to mind, to obey

   No m'escoltis pas! ― Don't mind me!

• “escoltar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “escoltar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Italian scortare.

escoltar (first-person singular present escolto, first-person singular preterite escoltei, past participle escoltado)

1. to escort (to guard someone or something as they go somewhere)

• “escoltar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

Borrowed from Italian scortare.

• IPA^(key): /eskolˈtaɾ/ [es.kol̪ˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧col‧tar

escoltar (first-person singular present escolto, first-person singular preterite escolté, past participle escoltado)

1. (transitive) to escort
   • 2023 June 8, Montero Glez, “El viaje psicodélico como experimento científico tuvo su desarrollo en Harvard”, in El País‎^[1], photo caption:

     Timothy Leary es escoltado por agentes federales desde un avión de pasajeros en 1972. Leary fue detenido en Afganistán y se enfrentó a cargos de contrabando de drogas, conspiración y evasión de impuestos.

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• “escoltar”, 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