escanciar
Spanish, verb/eskanˈθjaɾ/
escanciar is spelled E-S-C-A-N-C-I-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 38 million words in written Spanish, the 220,080th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escanciar is a Spanish verb meaning “to pour cider by raising the bottle over one's head and into the glass held tilted by one's waist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Echar o servir el vino u otra bebida en los vasos. Particularmente, echar la sidra en el vaso desde lo alto…”.
What does escanciar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pour cider by raising the bottle over one's head and into the glass held tilted by one's waist
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Echar o servir el vino u otra bebida en los vasos. Particularmente, echar la sidra en el vaso desde lo alto para que al caer forme espuma.
verb: 1. Beber licor y, en particular, vino.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escanciar
- escancio first-person present singular
- escancié first-person preterite singular
- escanciado participle past
- escanciando gerund
- escanciada feminine participle past
- escanciados masculine participle past
- escanciadas feminine participle past
- escancias indicative informal present
- escanciás indicative informal present
- escancia indicative present singular
- escanciamos first-person indicative plural
- escanciáis indicative plural present
- escancian indicative plural present
- escanciaba first-person imperfect indicative
- escanciabas imperfect indicative second-person
- escanciábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- escanciabais imperfect indicative plural
- escanciaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escanciar?
- /eskanˈθjaɾ/
- [es.kãn̟ˈθjaɾ]
- /eskanˈsjaɾ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escanciar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escanciar in Spanish?
escanciar appears about once in every 38 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).