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escotar

escotar

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Eastern Catalan) IPA(key): [əskutá]
  • (Western Catalan) IPA(key): [askotá]

Verb

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, past participle escotat)

  1. 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

  • (Eastern Catalan) IPA(key): [əskutá]
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): [eskotáɾ]
  • (Western Catalan) IPA(key): [askotá]

Verb

escotar (first-person singular present escoto, past participle escotat)

  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
Conjugation
Synonyms
  • (to remove the top portion of one's clothing): espitregar-se
Derived terms
  • escot (décolletage, cleavage)

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • escoutar (Mistralian).

Etymology

From Old Provençal, from Vulgar Latin *ascultāre, from Latin auscultāre, present active infinitive of auscultō (I listen). Compare Catalan escoltar, French écouter, Portuguese escutar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eskuˈta/

Verb

escotar

  1. to listen

Inflection


Spanish

Verb

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

Conjugation