cotó

From Arabic قُطُن (quṭun), form of triliteral root qṭn.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuˈto]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [koˈto]

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• Rhymes: -o

cotó m (plural cotons)

1. cotton
2. woolly fluellen (Kickxia lanigera)

   Synonym: escampadora

3. Chaenorhinum origanifolium

   Synonym: linària origanifòlia

• “cotó”, 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
• “cotó” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2025.

cotó (1st declension, 3rd person singular icotó) (Kipeá)

1. to steal [with dó]

• cotirú (“thief”)

cotó (5th declension, 3rd person singular sucotó) (Kipeá)

1. (hapax legomenon) to eat (what is stored)

   Near-synonym: nhú

• Arion Dall’Igna Rodrigues (1942) “COTÒ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2, page 202