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): (Valencia) [es.koˈti.ʎa]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
escotilla f (plural escotilles)
See also
Further reading
- “escotilla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eskoˈtiʝa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /eskoˈtiʎa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /eskoˈtiʃa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /eskoˈtiʒa/ [es.koˈt̪i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: es‧co‧ti‧lla
Noun
escotilla f (plural escotillas)
Related terms
Further reading
- “escotilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025