escotar

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

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

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

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014