escotar

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əs.koˈta/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /əs.kuˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /es.koˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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

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

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.

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

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

   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 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.

• 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, 2006-2016.
• “escotar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “escotar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “escotar” 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)

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

• IPA^(key): /eskuˈta/

escotar

1. to listen

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈtaɾ/, [eskoˈt̪aɾ]

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

• escotadura
• escote

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