escotilla

Catalan

Etymology

Probably from Middle French escoutille, from escouter (“to listen”). Cognate to French écoutille, Spanish escotilla, Portuguese escotilha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kuˈti.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [es.koˈti.ʎa]

Noun

escotilla f (plural escotilles)

1. (nautical) hatch, hatchway

See also

• trapa

Further reading

• “escotilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈtiʝa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /eskoˈtiʝa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /eskoˈtiʎa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /eskoˈtiʃa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /eskoˈtiʒa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: es‧co‧ti‧lla

Noun

escotilla f (plural escotillas)

1. hatch
2. airlock

Related terms

• escote

 

Further reading

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