escatimar

Borrowed from Spanish escatimar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əs.kə.tiˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.ka.tiˈmaɾ]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimí, past participle escatimat)

1. to use sparingly, to skimp

   Synonym: escassejar

• “escatimar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “escatimar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “escatimar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Unknown. From Old Galician-Portuguese escatimar (13th century). The Germanic etymology proposed by Coromines^[1] is unsustainable, according to Ramón Lorenzo.

• IPA^(key): [eskɑtiˈmaɾ]

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimei, past participle escatimado)

1. (transitive) to use sparingly, to skimp, to scrimp
2. (transitive, dated) to despise; to offend; to skimp
3. (pronominal, dated) to take offense
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Dime algùnha còusa dòce
     como habes doito, é catá,
     que si así no no fazèdes,
     me escatìmo, é velo hàs.
     Ven sabedes, vaiche bòa!
     como estas cousas se fàn,
     è madia tendes, senon
     eu êime de encabuxar.

     Tell me something sweet
     As you usually do, but beware,
     if you don't do it like that
     I'll take offense, you'll see.
     You know well, it could not be otherwise!
     how these things are done,
     no doubt about it or else
     I'll get angry.

• escatima
• escatimado
• escatimadamente

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “escatimar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “escatimar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “escatimar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “escatimar”, 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), “escatimar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “escatimar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese escatimar, a loan from Old Spanish escatimar. Cognate with Galician and Spanish escatimar.

• Hyphenation: es‧ca‧ti‧mar

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimei, past participle escatimado) (transitive)

1. to deprive through fraud; defraud
2. to insult; offend
3. to adulterate

From Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (*skattjan); compare 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌾𐌰 (skattja). Related to German Schatz (“treasure”).

• IPA^(key): /eskatiˈmaɾ/ [es.ka.t̪iˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: es‧ca‧ti‧mar

escatimar (first-person singular present escatimo, first-person singular preterite escatimé, past participle escatimado)

1. to use sparingly, to skimp
   • 2024 June 24, José Carlos Rojo, “Un operativo de rescate formado por 125 efectivos desplegados en Soba durante más de cuarenta horas”, in El Diario Montañés, page 3:

     Urrutia apuntó que no se ha escatimado en medios humanos, con la participación de 125 efectivos de todas las administraciones, […] .

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2. (intransitive) to scrimp, to stint, to cut corners
   • 2017, Bernardo Arango, Los Círculos De La Vida:

     Muchos hasta escatiman en la compra de un colchón y compra lo más barato y ordinario, sin tener en cuenta que en él descansará gran parte de su vida.

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• → Catalan: escatimar

• regatear

• “escatimar”, 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