pelota
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish pelota (“ball”). Doublet of pellet.
Noun
[edit]pelota (uncountable)
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)
- singular future passive participle of peli
Finnish
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[edit]pelota
- inflection of pelottaa:
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[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]pelota
- third-person singular past historic of peloter
Galician
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Medieval_baseball_%28El_juego_de_la_Pelota%29_in_the_Cantigas_de_Santa_Maria.jpg/220px-Medieval_baseball_%28El_juego_de_la_Pelota%29_in_the_Cantigas_de_Santa_Maria.jpg)
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]- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pelota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pelota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pelota”, 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), “pelota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pelota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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
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- Hyphenation: pe‧lo‧ta
Noun
[edit]pelota f (plural pelotas)
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “pelota”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- ^ “pelota”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- ^ “pelota”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- ^ “pelota”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
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
Hyponyms
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[edit]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
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