# escalo
## Catalan
### Verb

escalo
* first-person singular present indicative of escalar

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* escallo

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /esˈkalo̝/

### Noun

escalo m (plural escalos)
* 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 escoallosthey 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'escoalosyou'll make a press where the river pool is and, it done, you'll give us a dozen chubs each year

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escoall”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escalo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escallo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escalo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escalo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “escuálido”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈka.lu/, /esˈka.lu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /isˈka.lu/, /esˈka.lu/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃˈka.lu/, /eʃˈka.lu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /esˈka.lo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃˈka.lu/
* Rhymes: -alu
* Hyphenation: es‧ca‧lo

### Etymology 1

From Latin squalus (“large sea fish”).

#### Noun

escalo m (plural escalos)
* common name for several teleost fish of the Cyprinidae family, of freshwater, very common in Portugal.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

escalo
* first-person singular present indicative of escalar

### References

* ↑ “escalo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

## Spanish
### Verb

escalo
* first-person singular present indicative of escalar