picota

English

Etymology

From Portuguese picota.

Noun

picota (plural picotas)

  1. A machine for raising water consisting of a long lever or yard, pivotted on an upright post, weighted on the short arm and bearing a line and bucket on the long arm.
    Synonym: shadoof

Alternative forms

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish picota.

Noun

picota f (plural picotes)

  1. (historical) pillory
    Synonym: costell

Noun

picota f (plural picotes)

  1. Alternative form of pigota

Further reading

French

Verb

picota

  1. third-person singular past historic of picoter

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Pica (pick) + -ota.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈkota̝/, /piˈkɔta̝/

Noun

picota f (plural picotas)

  1. (historical) pillory
    • 1435, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 114:
      et qual quer persona que fose achado que leuase a dita rodriga das viñas alleas, se fose moller, que pagase de pena por cada vez dez mrs e de mays que lle fesesen tomar a rodriga á viña et á poer ena viña, segundo que a tirara, et que a posesen por hum dia ena picota
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (dressing) cloak with a hood traditionally worn by women in the winter
  3. (locally) main square

Derived terms

References

  • picota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • picota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • picota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • picota” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈkɔ.tɐ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French picot.

Noun

picota f (plural picotas)

  1. pillory
  2. (nautical) pump-cheek
  3. shadoof

Verb

picota

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

Romanian

Verb

a picota (third-person singular present picotează, past participle picotat) 1st conj.

  1. Alternative form of picoti

Conjugation

Spanish

Noun

picota f (plural picotas)

  1. pillory
  2. sweet cherry
  3. (nautical) pump-cheek

Further reading

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