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): /esˈkoʝo/ [esˈko.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /esˈkoʎo/ [esˈko.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /esˈkoʃo/ [esˈko.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /esˈkoʒo/ [esˈko.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /esˈkojo/ [esˈko.jo] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

 

• Rhymes: -oʝo

• Rhymes: -oʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -oʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -oʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -ojo (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• 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^[2], retrieved 2 December 2020:

     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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025