escatimar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kə.tiˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [es.ka.tiˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimí, past participle escatimat)

1. to use sparingly, to skimp

• “escatimar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Unknown. From Old Galician-Portuguese escatimar (13th century). The Germanic etymology proposed by Coromines[1] is unsustainable, according to Ramón Lorenzo.

• IPA^(key): [eskɑtiˈmaɾ]

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimei, past participle escatimado)

1. (transitive) to use sparingly, to skimp, to scrimp
2. (transitive, dated) to despise; to offend; to skimp
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun, dated) to take offense
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you usually do, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offense, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise!
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it or else
     I'll get angry.

• escatima
• escatimado
• escatimadamente

• “escatimar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “escatimar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “escatimar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “escatimar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “escatimar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “escatimar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escatimar, a loan from Old Spanish escatimar. Cognate with Galician and Spanish escatimar.

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧ti‧mar

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimei, past participle escatimado) (transitive)

1. to deprive through fraud; defraud
2. to insult; offend
3. to adulterate

From Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*skattjan); compare 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌾𐌰 (skattja). Related to German Schatz (“treasure”).

• IPA^(key): /eskatiˈmaɾ/ [es.ka.t̪iˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧ti‧mar

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimé, past participle escatimado)

1. to use sparingly, to skimp
2. (intransitive) to scrimp, to stint, to cut corners
   • 2017, Bernardo Arango, Los Círculos De La Vida:

     Muchos hasta escatiman en la compra de un colchón y compra lo más barato y ordinario, sin tener en cuenta que en él descansará gran parte de su vida.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• regatear

• “escatimar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014