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Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain, but possibly from Latin excutere (“shake off”), with a change in conjugation. Possibly related to Latin cos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eskoˈdaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: es‧co‧dar
Verb
escodar (first-person singular present escodo, first-person singular preterite escodé, past participle escodado)
- to hew stones with an edged hammer
- (said of an animal) to shake one's horns to remove the skin and fur
Conjugation
1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
2Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
Further reading
- “escodar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “escodar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 699