escalope

English

Coat of arms in sable with three escalopes in argent

Alternative forms

• escallop

Etymology

Borrowed from French escalope. Doublet of scallop.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛskəˌlɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɛskəˈloʊp/, /ˈɛskəˌloʊp/

Noun

escalope (plural escalopes)

1. A thin slice of meat, especially veal or poultry.

   Synonym: scallop

   • 1980 November 23, Patricia Brooks, “French Dining in an Unlikely Setting”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Both the escalope de veau Normande and a special of the day, veal Orloff, seemed to be cut from the same veal roast, not thin escalopes at all, but thick chop-like slices. Only the sauces differed.

2. Alternative spelling of escallop.

Translations

thin slice of meat

• Catalan: escalopa
• Esperanto: eskalopo
• Finnish: leike (fi)
• French: escalope (fr) f
• German: Schnitzel (de) n
• Italian: scaloppa (it) f, fettina f
• Japanese: 薄切り肉 (usugiriniku)
• Polish: eskalopek (pl) m, eskalopka f, eskalop m
• Portuguese: escalope (pt) m
• Russian: эскало́п (ru) m (eskalóp)
• Spanish: escalope (es) m

Further reading

• escalope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• opalesce

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French escalope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.lɔp/

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Noun

escalope f (plural escalopes)

1. escalope (thin slice of meat)

Descendants

• → Catalan: escalopa
• → English: escalope
• → Portuguese: escalope
• → Spanish: escalope

Further reading

• “escalope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Old French

Etymology

Supposedly a blend of escale (“scallop”) +‎ enveloppe (“envelope”).

Noun

escalope oblique singular, f (oblique plural escalopes, nominative singular escalope, nominative plural escalopes)

1. shell (hard outer covering)

Descendants

• English: escalope, scallop
• French: escalope
• Norman: scalope (Jersey)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old French escalope

French escalopebor.

Portuguese escalope

Borrowed from French escalope.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.kaˈlɔ.pi/, /es.kaˈlɔ.pi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.kaˈlɔ.pi/, /es.kaˈlɔ.pi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.kaˈlɔ.pi/, /eʃ.kaˈlɔ.pi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.kaˈlɔ.pe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.kɐˈlɔ.pɨ/

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧lo‧pe

Noun

escalope m (plural escalopes)

1. (cooking) escalope (thin slice of meat)

Further reading

• “escalope”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “escalope”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old French escalope

French escalopebor.

Spanish escalope

Borrowed from French escalope.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eskaˈlope/ [es.kaˈlo.pe]
• Rhymes: -ope
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧lo‧pe

Noun

escalope m (plural escalopes)

1. escalope

Further reading

• “escalope”, 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