pelota
English edit
Etymology edit
Spanish pelota (“ball”). Doublet of pellet.
Noun edit
pelota (uncountable)
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Adjective edit
pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)
- singular future passive participle of peli
Finnish edit
Verb edit
pelota
- inflection of pelottaa:
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Audio (file)
Verb edit
pelota
- third-person singular past historic of peloter
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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 edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan pelota (possibly via Spanish pelota[1][2][3]), from Old French pelote,[4] from Latin pila (“ball”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pe‧lo‧ta
Noun edit
pelota f (plural pelotas)
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References edit
- ^ “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, 2003–2023.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Via Old French and Occitan from Latin pila.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pelota f (plural pelotas)
- (sports) ball (a round or ellipsoidal object)
- Synonym: balón
- jugar a (lanzar) la pelota ― to go fetch
- (sports) ball game
- (figurative, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle
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Noun edit
pelota m or f by sense (plural pelotas)
- people pleaser, toady
- Synonyms: (Spain) palmero, lameculos, lambeculos, (vulgar, derogatory) lambeculo
Further reading edit
- “pelota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014