carota

From cara (“face”) +‎ -ota.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kəˈɾɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈɾɔ.ta]

carota f (plural carotes)

1. grimace

   Synonym: ganyota

2. grotesque mask (worn during carnival and other folk festivals)

• “carota”, 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
• “carota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “carota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “carota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• acorat, acotar, actora, atraco, coarta, croata, tocara, tocarà

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrɔ.ta/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: ca‧rò‧ta

From Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτόν (kărōtón).

carota f (plural carote)

1. carrot
2. core, core sample
3. (figurative, colloquial) fib

• carotina

carota (invariable)

1. orange-red, carrot

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carota

1. inflection of carotare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• arcato, carato, caratò, cataro, coarta, corata, croata

From Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón, “carrot”), a diminutive of κᾰρώ (kărṓ, “caraway”), possibly derived from κάρᾱ (kárā, “head”) or from Pre-Greek. Related to carum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈroː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈrɔː.t̪a]

carōta f (genitive carōtae); first declension

1. carrot

First-declension noun.

• “carota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French carotter.

a carota (third-person singular present carotează, past participle carotat) 1st conjugation

1. to cheat, to extort

• carotta (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Vallader)

From Latin carōta, from Ancient Greek καρωτόν (karōtón).

carota f (plural carotas)

1. (Sutsilvan) carrot

• (Rumantsch Grischun) risch melna, (Surmiran, Puter) rischmelna
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) riebla
• (Sursilvan) ragisch cotschna

Augmentative of cara (“face”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾota/ [kaˈɾo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: ca‧ro‧ta

carota f (plural carotas)

1. (colloquial) facial expression reflecting rejection, dissatisfaction, anger, disapprobation, annoyance, etc.; face

   ¿Por qué vienes con tu carota, quién te hizo enojar?

   Why do you look annoyed, who made you angry?

   Conté el chiste y la vecina puso su carota

   I told the joke and the neighbour showed her annoyed face.

carota m (plural carotas)

1. cool customer

• “carota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• croata