chicote
French edit
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
chicote f (plural chicotes)
- Alternative form of chicotte
Further reading edit
- “chicote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chicote m (plural chicotes)
- (nautical) extreme of a rope
- Synonym: cabo
- (nautical, by extension) rope
- Synonym: cabo
- cord
- (dated) cigar butt
References edit
- “chicote” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chicote” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “chicote” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “chicote”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: chi‧co‧te
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly from French chicot (“stump; stub”) or from Nahuatl xicohtli (“a kind of large bee”).
Noun edit
chicote m (plural chicotes)
- whip (flexible instrument used to create cracking sounds or for striking)
Derived terms edit
- chicotinho (diminutive), chicotezinho (diminutive)
- chicotão (augmentative)
- efeito chicote
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
chicote
- inflection of chicotar:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
chicote m (plural chicotes, feminine chicota, feminine plural chicotas)
- (colloquial) robust young person
- (Havana, slang) robust foot odor of a young person, esp. a preadolescent male
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
chicote m (plural chicotes)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “chicote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014