# escavar
## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since 1303. From Latin excavāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eskaˈβaɾ/

### Verb

escavar (first-person singular present escavo, first-person singular preterite escavei, past participle escavado)
* to dig
** 1303, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 150:
    Et dardeſ cada anno quatro dias de ſeara a noſſa graña de Pineyra, ṽn dia a eſcauar, outro a pudar, outro a cauar, outro a rãdar
       You'll give each year four days of work in our farm of Piñeira, one day for digging, another for prunning, another for hoeing, another for weeding
* to excavate
* to scoop, hollow

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Related terms

* cavar

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escau”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escavar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “escavar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “escavar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “escavar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escavar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin excavāre.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /is.kaˈva(ʁ)/ [is.kaˈva(h)], /es.kaˈva(ʁ)/ [es.kaˈva(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /is.kaˈva(ʁ)/ [is.kaˈva(h)], /es.kaˈva(ʁ)/ [es.kaˈva(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /is.kaˈva(ɾ)/, /es.kaˈva(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /iʃ.kaˈva(ʁ)/ [iʃ.kaˈva(χ)], /eʃ.kaˈva(ʁ)/ [eʃ.kaˈva(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /es.kaˈva(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈvaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈvaɾ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈbaɾ/ [(i)ʃ.kɐˈβaɾ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /(i)ʃ.kɐˈva.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: es‧ca‧var

### Verb

escavar (first-person singular present escavo, first-person singular preterite escavei, past participle escavado)
* to dig
* to excavate
* to scoop, hollow

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

#### Related terms

* cavar

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin excavāre. Equivalent to es- +‎ cavar. Doublet of excavar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /eskaˈbaɾ/ [es.kaˈβ̞aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: es‧ca‧var

### Verb

escavar (first-person singular present escavo, first-person singular preterite escavé, past participle escavado)
* to dig

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

#### Related terms

* cavar
* excavar

### Further reading

* “escavar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10