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pelota

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Etymology

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From Spanish pelota (“ball”). Doublet of pellet.

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Noun

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pelota (uncountable)

  1. Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.

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Adjective

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pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)

  1. singular future passive participle of peli

Finnish

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Verb

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pelota

  1. inflection of pelottaa:
    1. present active indicative connegative
    2. second-person singular present imperative
    3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

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pelota

  1. third-person singular past historic of peloter

Galician

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Como jogavã a pelota os mancebos ("how the young men were playing with the ball"), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria

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From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).

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pelota f (plural pelotas)

  1. ball
    Synonyms: balón, bóla
    • 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
  2. butter pellet
  3. an abnormal growth in the legs of the cattle
  4. (figurative, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan pelota (possibly via Spanish pelota[1][2][3]), from Old French pelote,[4] from Latin pila (“ball”).

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  • Hyphenation: pe‧lo‧ta

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pelota f (plural pelotas)

  1. a small ball or sphere
    Synonym: bola

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  1. ^ “pelota”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
  2. ^ “pelota”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
  3. ^ “pelota”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
  4. ^ “pelota”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Spanish

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Etymology

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Via Old French and Occitan from Latin pila.

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  • IPA(key): /peˈlota/ [peˈlo.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: pe‧lo‧ta

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pelota f (plural pelotas)

  1. (sports) ball (a round or ellipsoidal object)
    Synonym: balón
    jugar a (lanzar) la pelota ― to go fetch
  2. (sports) ball game
  3. (figurative, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle

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Noun

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pelota m or f by sense (plural pelotas)

  1. people pleaser, toady
    Synonyms: (Spain) palmero, lameculos, lambeculos, (vulgar, derogatory) lambeculo

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish pelota.

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pelota (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜓᜆ) (sports)

  1. ball; rubber ball
    Synonym: bola
  2. pelota (any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall)
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