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pelota

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Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

pelota (uncountable)

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

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

  1. singular future passive participle of peli

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Verb edit

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 edit

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

Etymology edit

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

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Noun edit

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

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”).

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  • Hyphenation: pe‧lo‧ta

Noun edit

pelota f (plural pelotas)

  1. a small ball or sphere
    Synonym: bola

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References edit

  1. ^ “pelota” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
  2. ^ “pelota” in iDicionário Aulete.
  3. ^ “pelota” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
  4. ^ “pelota” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Via Old French and Occitan from Latin pila.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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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pelota m or f by sense (plural pelotas)

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

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