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Catalan
Verb
escollo
- first-person singular present indicative of escollar
Galician
Verb
escollo
- first-person singular present indicative of escoller
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian scoglio,[1] from Vulgar Latin *scoculum (possibly through a Gallo-Italic intermediate), from Latin scopulus, from Ancient Greek σκόπελος (skópelos, “lookout place: hence peak, headland, promontory”). Compare Catalan escull.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /esˈkoʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /esˈkoʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /esˈkoʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /esˈkoʒo/
- Syllabification: es‧co‧llo
Noun
escollo m (plural escollos)
- reef, shoal
- (figuratively) pitfall, stumbling block
2020 December 2, José Marcos, Pablo Linde, “Sanidad propone retrasar el toque de queda a la 1.30 en Nochebuena y Nochevieja”, in El País, retrieved 2020-12-02:El principal escollo es el confinamiento perimetral, que se establece para todas las comunidades, excepto los archipiélagos (Canarias y Baleares).- The main stumbling rock is the perimeter lockdown, which is established for all the communities, except the archipelagos (the Canaries and Balearics).
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