escapar

From Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”).

escapar (first-person singular indicative present escapo, past participle escapáu)

1. to escape.

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Homophone: escapà

escapar (first-person singular present escapo, first-person singular preterite escapí, past participle escapat)

1. (intransitive) to escape
2. (intransitive, pronominal) to escape

• capa

• “escapar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “escapar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “escapar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “escapar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , April 2007

• acarpes, aparesc, caspera, escarpa, paresca

From Old Galician-Portuguese escapar, from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”).

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escapar (first-person singular present escapo, first-person singular preterite escapei, past participle escapado)

1. (intransitive) to escape; to get away; to get out

   Synonyms: fuxir, saír

   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 13:

     Et os que ende poderõ escapar daquela queyma fugirõ cõ algũus dos seus navios, et escaparõ fogindo pelo mar.

     And the ones that could escape of said burning fled away with some of their ships, and got out fleeing by the sea

   • 1459, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 340:

     Gonçaluo Rodrigues d'Olueda deu querella do dito prouisor et de seus omes, que tragendo él en este dia ena sua sua viña de tras lo Castello seys omes arrendando e labrando sua viña que seyran a él do dito castello sete omes et que aderençaran a hun seu fillo, que á nome Pedro, et a hun seu criado que lle deran con asta tras lo pescoço et aos ditos labradores que deran hua ferrida ena testa con hua lança et a outro labrador que lle deran quatro feridas, de que entendía que non escaparía, et correran pos elles

     Gonzalo Rodríguez de Olveda gave a complaint of said provisor and his men; because bringing he that day, in his vineyard behind the castle, six hired men working his vineyard, that seven men exited said castle to them, and that they came near one of his sons, who has the name Pedro, and that they hit one of his servants in the back of the neck with the shaft; and to said workers, they gave one a wound in the head with a spear, and to other worker they gave four wounds, of which he thought he wouldn't get out, and they ran after them

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escapar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escapar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escapar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escapar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escapar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “escapar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Old Galician-Portuguese escapar, from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (“cloak”).

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧par

escapar (first-person singular present escapo, first-person singular preterite escapei, past participle escapado)

1. (intransitive) to escape (get free)

   Synonyms: escapulir, fugir, vazar

• “escapar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “escapar”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “escapar” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “escapar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “escapar”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “escapar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Inherited from Old Spanish escapar, from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, from Late Latin cappa (“cloak”).

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈpaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧par

escapar (first-person singular present escapo, first-person singular preterite escapé, past participle escapado)

1. (intransitive, transitive) to escape, get out
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to run away, get away, slip away, flee

   Synonym: huir

3. (reflexive) to sneak out, run off

• “escapar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024