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escalo

See also: escaló

Catalan

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Verb

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escalo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of escalar

Galician

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Escalo

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese escoallo, escoalo (attested since the 15th century in Galician documents), probably from Latin squalus.[1] Cf. also Portuguese escalho, escalheiro.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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escalo m (plural escalos)

  1. the Northern Iberian chub (Squalius carolitertii)
    • 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 125:
      que desen cada canbo de scoallos por duas brancas, et que fose en cada canbo çinco escoallos
      they shall pay for each group of chubs two brancas, and each group should be made of five chubs
    • 1499, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 739:
      faredes hun estanco adonde esta a puça e, el feito, darnos edes en cada vn anno huna duzia d'escoalos
      you'll make a press where the river pool is and, it done, you'll give us a dozen chubs each year

References

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escoall”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • “escalo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “escallo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “escalo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “escalo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “escuálido”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -alu
  • Hyphenation: es‧ca‧lo

Etymology 1

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From Latin squalus (“large sea fish”).

Noun

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escalo m (plural escalos)

  1. common name for several teleost fish of the Cyprinidae family, of freshwater, very common in Portugal.[1]

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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escalo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of escalar

References

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  1. ^ “escalo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

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Verb

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escalo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of escalar
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