escoria
Meaning
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- (feminine) slag
- (feminine) scum
- (feminine) scoria
Concepts
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
es‧co‧ria
Pronounced as (IPA)
/esˈkoɾja/
Etymology
In summary
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.
New
escoriar
to scrape, abrade
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