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Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /eskaˈʝola/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /eskaˈʃola/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /eskaˈʒola/
- Rhymes: -ola
- Syllabification: es‧ca‧yo‧la
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian scagliuola, diminutive of scaglia.
Noun
escayola f (plural escayolas)
- plaster
- Synonym: yeso
- stucco
- Synonym: estuco
Etymology 2
Verb
escayola
- inflection of escayolar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
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