coyote
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]coyote (plural coyotes)
- Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
- Synonym: prairie wolf
- 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:
- Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
- (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
- 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times[1]:
- Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.
Hyponyms
[edit]- Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani)
- California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus)
- Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis)
- Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus)
- Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis)
- Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon)
- Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi)
- Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis)
- mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes)
- northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus)
- Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos)
- Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis)
- Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae)
- Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans)
- Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi)
- San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus)
- Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustror)
- Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis)
- Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi)
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Irish: cadhóit
Translations
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Verb
[edit]coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)
- coyote
- Synonym: prairiewolf
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coyote m (plural coyotes)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: coiot
Further reading
[edit]- “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coyote m (usually invariable, plural (rare, proscribed) coyoti)
References
[edit]- ^ coyote in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]coyote m (plural coyotes)
- coyote (canine)
- (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
- Synonym: pollero
- (Mexico) fixer, middleman
- Synonym: intermediario
- (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent
Derived terms
[edit]- coyota f
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “coyote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- coyote on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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