escanciar

escanciar (first-person singular indicative present escancio, past participle escanciáu)

1. to serve (food or drink)
2. to pour (cider)

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną, probably via Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌽𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*skankjan). Cognate with German schenken (“to pour, give as a present”), Dutch schenken (“to pour, give as a present”), English shink (“to pour”), Portuguese escanção.

• IPA^(key): /eskanˈθjaɾ/ [es.kãn̟ˈθjaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /eskanˈsjaɾ/ [es.kãnˈsjaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧can‧ciar

escanciar (first-person singular present escancio, first-person singular preterite escancié, past participle escanciado)

1. (transitive) to pour cider by raising the bottle over one's head and into the glass held tilted by one's waist

• The verb is almost exclusively used to describe this method of pouring cider, which is common in Asturias.
• The pourer looks blankly forward, not at the bottle or at the glass. It is poured this way to allow air bubbles into the drink, and generally a few drops are spilt on the floor in the process.

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