pelota
English
Derived terms
See also
Esperanto
Finnish
Verb
pelota
- inflection of pelottaa:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Galician
Etymology
From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈlɔta̝/
Audio (file)
Noun
pelota f (plural pelotas)
- ball
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:
- tijña ẽna mão hũa pelota pequena, et asynaua pera a deytar á agia, et ela fogía et voaua ata que a pelota passaua per ela
- he hold in his hand a small ball, and he was making signals to throw it to the eagle, and the eagle fled and flew until the ball passed by
- butter pellet
- an abnormal growth in the legs of the cattle
- (figurative, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle
References
- “pelota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “pelota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “pelota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pelota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pelota” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Occitan pelota (possibly via Spanish pelota[1][2][3]), from Old French pelote,[4] from Latin pila (“ball”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈlɔ.tɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈlɔ.ta/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈlɔ.tɐ/
- Hyphenation: pe‧lo‧ta
Derived terms
- em pelota
References
- “pelota” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “pelota” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “pelota” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “pelota” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish
Etymology
Via Old French and Occitan from Latin pila.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈlota/ [peˈlo.t̪a]
- Rhymes: -ota
- Syllabification: pe‧lo‧ta
Noun
pelota f (plural pelotas)
Hyponyms
- pelota antiestrés (“stress ball”)
- pelota de fútbol
- pelota de fútbol americano
- pelota de golf
- pelota de tenis
- pelota de viento
Derived terms
Noun
pelota m or f by sense (plural pelotas)
- people pleaser, toady
- Synonyms: (Spain) palmero, lameculos, lambeculos, (vulgar, derogatory) lambeculo
Further reading
- “pelota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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