pelota

English

Etymology

Spanish pelota (“ball”)

Noun

pelota (uncountable)

1. Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.

See also

• pilota

Anagrams

• patole, pot ale, potale

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Adjective

pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)

1. singular future passive participle of peli

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Finnish

Verb

pelota

1. (deprecated template usage) present active indicative connegative of pelottaa
2. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present imperative of pelottaa
3. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of pelottaa

Anagrams

• lopeta, oletpa, peltoa

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French

Verb

pelota

1. third-person singular past historic of peloter

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Galician

Como jogavã a pelota os mancebos ("how the young men were playing with the ball"), 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria

Etymology

From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈlɔta̝/

• Audio:

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Noun

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. ball
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:

     tijña ẽna mão hũa pelota pequena, et asynaua pera a deytar á agia, et ela fogía et voaua ata que a pelota passaua per ela

     he hold in his hand a small ball, and he was making signals to throw it to the eagle, and the eagle fled and flew until the ball passed by

   Synonyms: balón, bóla

2. butter pellet
3. an abnormal growth in the legs of the cattle
4. (figurative, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pelota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pelota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

Noun

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. a small ball or sphere

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Spanish

Etymology

Via Provençal from Latin pila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peˈlota/ [peˈlo.t̪a]

Noun

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. (sports) ball (a round or ellipsoidal object)

pelota m or f (plural pelotas)

1. people pleaser, toady, sycophant, bootlicker, toadeater, brown noser, kiss-ass (North America)

   Synonyms: (Spain) palmero, lameculos, lambeculos, lambeculo (vulgar, derogatory)

Derived terms

• apelotar
• en pelota; en pelotas
• estar hasta las pelotas
• hacer la pelota
• hecho pelota
• hinchapelotas
• pelota paleta
• pelota vasca
• pelotear
• poner la pelota en juego
• recogepelotas
• tocapelotas
• tocar las pelotas

 

Further reading

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