cotón
See also: coton
Galician
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUltimately from Arabic قُطْن (quṭn); see cotton for more. Doublet of algodón.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcotón m (plural cotóns)
- (uncountable) fur, fluff, fuzz
- (uncountable) lint
- rags used for cleaning one's hands
- (uncountable) dust bunny
References
edit- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coton”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cotón”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cotón”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cotón”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French coton, from Italian cotone, from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcotón m (plural cotones)
Descendants
edit- → Copala Triqui: cotoó
- → Western Juxtlahuaca Mixtec: kotóo
- → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: coton
Further reading
edit- “cotón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish 2-syllable words
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