coleta

From Spanish coleta.

coleta (plural coletas)

1. (bullfighting) A pigtail, a symbol of the matador.

• Alecto, acetol, locate

From col (“cabbage”) +‎ -eta.

coleta f (plural coletes)

1. sea kale (Crambe maritima)

   Synonym: rave de mar

• coleta de mar
• coleta de sembrat

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

Borrowed from Spanish coleta.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.le.ta/

coleta f (plural coletas)

1. (bullfighting) coleta

• “coleta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish coleta.

• colêta (pre-reform spelling)

• Hyphenation: co‧le‧ta

coleta f (plural coletas)

1. (bullfighting) coleta

Learned borrowing from Latin collēcta. Doublet of colheita.

• colecta (pre-1990 spelling)
• collecta (pre-standardization spelling)

• Hyphenation: co‧le‧ta

coleta f (plural coletas)

1. collection; the act of collecting
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• colecta (pre-1990 spelling)
• collecta (pre-standardization spelling)

• Hyphenation: co‧le‧ta

coleta

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

From cola +‎ -eta.

• IPA^(key): /koˈleta/ [koˈle.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: co‧le‧ta

coleta f (plural coletas)

1. ponytail

   Synonym: cola de caballo

2. (bullfighting) coleta
3. exhaust pipe
4. afterthought

• “coleta”, 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