garrote

English

Alternative forms

• garrotte (UK)

Etymology

From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈɹɒt/, /ɡəˈɹoʊt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

• Audio (US):

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Noun

garrote (plural garrotes)

1. an iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation
   • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote - an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.

2. something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation

   The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.

Translations

iron collar used to execute by strangulation

• Dutch: wurgpaal (nl) m
• German: Würgeisen n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: garrote (pt) m
• Russian: гаррота (ru) f (garrota)

cord or wire used for strangulation

• German: Garotte (de) f
• Portuguese: garrote (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: гаррота (ru) f (garrota)

Verb

garrote (third-person singular simple present garrotes, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. (transitive) to execute by strangulation
2. (transitive) to kill using a garrote

See also

• garrot

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Galician

Galician carro; note the garrote going through the end of the axletree

Etymology

14th century. From Old French garrot, itself either from Old Occitan garra (“leg”) and the suffix -ot, from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”), or from a Germanic source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrɔte̝/

Noun

garrote m (plural garrotes)

1. garrot used to limit the movement of an animal
2. bolt or garrot which affixes each wheel to the axletree of a traditional Galician cart

   Synonyms: gorrón, torno

3. (archaic) press
   • 1357, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 139:

     afforo [...] a meatade de toda essa minna binna, con o herdamento que ias a par dela [...] con a meatade do lagar et garrote que y esta assy commo esta acaroada de muro

     I rent to you [...] half of my vineyard, with the possessions that are adjacent to it [...] with half of the winepress that is there, as it is delimited by a wall

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garrote”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garrote”, 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), “garrote”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garrote”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Italian

Noun

garrote f

1. plural of garrota

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar‧ro‧te

Etymology 1

Noun

garrote m (plural garrotes)

1. (historical) an iron necklace used for execution in Spain and Portugal
2. (medicine) bandage used to compress a limb and prevent bleeding

   Synonyms: torniquete, atadura

3. withers (part of a quadruped's body between the shoulder and the neck)

   Synonym: cernelha

4. needle

   Synonym: agulha

5. (figuratively) angst

   Synonyms: angústia, aflição

6. (Brazil) a calf between two and four years old

Derived terms

• garrotar
• garrotear

Etymology 2

Verb

garrote

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Further reading

• “garrote”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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Spanish

Etymology

From French garrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrote/ [ɡaˈro.t̪e]

Noun

garrote m (plural garrotes)

1. garrote
2. club, cudgel

Derived terms

• agarrotar
• garrotazo

Descendants

• → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

Further reading

• “garrote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014