pelota
English
Etymology
Noun
pelota (uncountable)
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Esperanto
Adjective
pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)
- singular future passive participle of peli
Finnish
Verb
pelota
- (deprecated template usage) present active indicative connegative of pelottaa
- (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present imperative of pelottaa
- (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative connegative of pelottaa
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French
Verb
pelota
- third-person singular past historic of peloter
Galician
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Etymology
From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pelota f (plural pelotas)
- 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
- 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
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:
- butter pellet
- an abnormal growth in the legs of the cattle
- (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
Portuguese
Noun
pelota f (plural pelotas)
Spanish
Etymology
Via Provençal from Latin pila.
Pronunciation
Noun
pelota f (plural pelotas)
pelota m or f (plural pelotas)
- people pleaser, toady, sycophant, bootlicker, toadeater, brown noser, kiss-ass (North America)
- Synonyms: (Spain) palmero, lameculos, lambeculos, lambeculo (vulgar, derogatory)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pelota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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