cotó

See also: coto

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic قطن (quṭun), from Arabic قُطُن (quṭun).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [kuˈtu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [koˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈto]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -o

Noun

cotó m (plural cotons)

1. cotton
2. woolly fluellen (Kickxia lanigera)

   Synonym: escampadora

3. Chaenorhinum origanifolium

   Synonym: linària origanifòlia

Derived terms

• cotó fluix
• cotonaire
• cotoner
• cotonet
• cotonia
• cotonós

Further reading

• “cotó”, 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
• “cotó” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026.

Kariri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koto/
• Rhymes: -o

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• koto (Dzubukuá)

Verb

cotó (1st declension, 3rd person singular icotó) (Kipeá)

1. to steal [with dó]

Declension

Declension of cotó

	singular	plural
1st	hicotó	exclusive	hicotodé
		inclusive	cucotoá
2nd	ecotó	ecotoá
3rd	icotó	icotoá

Derived terms

• cotirú (“thief”)

Etymology 2

Verb

cotó (5th declension, 3rd person singular sucotó) (Kipeá)

1. (hapax legomenon) to eat what is stored

   Near-synonym: nhú

Declension

Declension of cotó

	singular	plural
1st	dzucotó	exclusive	dzucotodé
		inclusive	cucotoá
2nd	acotó	acotoá
3rd	sucotó	sucotoá

References

• Rodrigues, Arion Dall’Igna (1942), “COTÒ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português [Portuguese–Kirirí and Kirirí–Portuguese vocabularies]”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2 (overall work in Portuguese), page 202, column 1