carota

See also: caröta

Catalan

Etymology

From cara (“face”) +‎ -ota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɾɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈɾɔ.ta]

Noun

carota f (plural carotes)

1. grimace

   Synonym: ganyota

2. grotesque mask (worn during carnival and other folk festivals)

Further reading

• “carota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “carota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “carota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Anagrams

• acorat, acotar, actora, atraco, coarta, croata, tocara, tocarà

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: ca‧rò‧ta

Etymology 1

Carota (vegetable)

Carota (core sample)

From Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (kărōtón).

Noun

carota f (plural carote)

1. carrot
2. core, core sample
3. (figurative, colloquial) fib

Derived terms

• carotina

Adjective

carota (invariable)

1. orange-red, carrot

Related terms

• carotare
• carotene

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

carota

1. inflection of carotare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• arcato, carato, caratò, cataro, coarta, corata, croata

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón, “carrot”), a diminutive of κᾰρώ (kărṓ, “caraway”), possibly derived from κάρᾱ (kárā, “head”) or from Pre-Greek. Related to carum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈroː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈrɔː.ta]

Noun

carōta f (genitive carōtae); first declension

1. carrot

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	carōta	carōtae
genitive	carōtae	carōtārum
dative	carōtae	carōtīs
accusative	carōtam	carōtās
ablative	carōtā	carōtīs
vocative	carōta	carōtae

Descendants

Descendants

• Middle French: carotte (see there for further descendants)
• Italian: carota
• Romanian: carotă
• Romansh: carota, carotta
• Sicilian: carrota
  • Maltese: carrota
• → Albanian: karotë
• → Polish: karota

References

• “carota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “carota”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French carotter.

Verb

a carota (third-person singular present carotează, past participle carotat) 1st conjugation

1. to cheat, to extort

Conjugation

    conjugation of carota (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a carota
gerund			carotând
past participle			carotat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	carotez	carotezi	carotează	carotăm	carotați	carotează
	imperfect	carotam	carotai	carota	carotam	carotați	carotau
	simple perfect	carotai	carotași	carotă	carotarăm	carotarăți	carotară
	pluperfect	carotasem	carotaseși	carotase	carotaserăm	carotaserăți	carotaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să carotez	să carotezi	să caroteze	să carotăm	să carotați	să caroteze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		carotează			carotați
	negative		nu carota			nu carotați

Romansh

Alternative forms

• carotta (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón).

Noun

carota f (plural carotas)

1. (Sutsilvan) carrot

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) risch melna, (Surmiran, Puter) rischmelna
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) riebla
• (Sursilvan) ragisch cotschna

Spanish

Etymology

Augmentative of cara (“face”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾota/ [kaˈɾo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: ca‧ro‧ta

Noun

carota f (plural carotas)

1. (colloquial) facial expression reflecting rejection, dissatisfaction, anger, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.; face

   ¿Por qué vienes con tu carota, quién te hizo enojar?

   Why do you look annoyed, who made you angry?

   Conté el chiste y la vecina puso su carota

   I told the joke and the neighbour showed her annoyed face.

Noun

carota m (plural carotas)

1. cool customer

Further reading

• “carota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Anagrams

• croata