escollo

Catalan

Verb

escollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of escollar

Galician

Verb

escollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of escoller

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scoglio, 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): /esˈkoʝo/ [esˈko.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /esˈkoʝo/ [esˈko.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /esˈkoʎo/ [esˈko.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /esˈkoʃo/ [esˈko.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /esˈkoʒo/ [esˈko.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -oʝo

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -oʝo
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -oʎo
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -oʃo
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -oʒo

• Syllabification: es‧co‧llo

Noun

escollo m (plural escollos)

1. reef, shoal
2. (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^[1], 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 [autonomous] communities, except the archipelagos (the Canaries and Balearics).

Further reading

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