cotilla
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Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cotilla (“corset”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cotilla f (plural cotilles)
- corset
- (figurative) restraint
- 2021 July 20, “Un revulsiu per a la informalitat”, in El País[1]:
- Si abans era poc habitual que un escriptor optés per caracteritzar els seus personatges amb un registre informal, o ho feia a mitges i esquitxant el text de cursives, ara han caigut totes les cotilles i la informalitat campa lliurement; […]
- It used to be uncommon for writers to characterize their protagonists in an informal tone, or when done at all, it was half-hearted and sprinkled with italics, but these restraints are gone now and informality has been set free; […]
Further reading
[edit]- “cotilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “cotilla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Diminutive of cota (“coat of mail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Syllabification: co‧ti‧lla
Adjective
[edit]cotilla m or f (masculine and feminine plural cotillas)
Noun
[edit]cotilla m or f by sense (plural cotillas)
- (colloquial) gossip, busybody, nosy
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cotilla f (plural cotillas)
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: cotilla
Further reading
[edit]- “cotilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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