escoria

See also: escòria, escória, and escoriá

Italian

Verb

escoria

  1. inflection of escoriare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈkoɾja/ [esˈko.ɾja]
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  • Rhymes: -oɾja
  • Syllabification: es‧co‧ria

Etymology 1

Either borrowed from Latin scoria, from Ancient Greek σκωρία (skōría), or possibly a popular continuation of a Vulgar Latin scauria, an Iberian variant of this word.[1]

Noun

escoria f (plural escorias)

  1. slag
  2. scum
  3. (geology) scoria
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

escoria

  1. inflection of escoriar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “escoria”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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