coto

From Spanish coto (“half-span, quarter-cubit”), supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), from Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers.

coto (plural cotos)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 10.4 cm.

• linea (¹⁄₅₄ coto), dedo (¹⁄₆ coto), pulgada (²⁄₉ coto), sesma (1+¹⁄₃ cotos), palmo (2 cotos), pie (2+²⁄₃ cotos), codo (4 cotos), vara (8 cotos)

• toco-, octo-, toco, coot

Borrowed from Spanish cotón.

coto

1. shirt.

From a substrate term *cŏtto-, probably from Proto-Celtic *kotto-, meaning "old" and hence either "grown" or "bent".^[1][2][3] Cognate with Asturian cueto.

• cotro

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔto̝/, /ˈkoto̝/

coto m (plural cotos)

1. peak (the top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range)

   Synonyms: bico, outeiro, penedo, pico

Unknown. Compare toco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto̝/, /ˈkɔto̝/

coto m (plural cotos, feminine cota, feminine plural cotas)

1. stump (of a tree or plant)

   Synonyms: cepo, cotón, couce, cozo, toco, trocho

2. stump (of an extremity)

   Synonym: toco

• cotelo
• coteno

coto (feminine cota, masculine plural cotos, feminine plural cotas)

1. maimed; mutilated

   Synonyms: fanado, mutilado

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coto (cast. cueto)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coto (toco)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: cò‧to

Deverbal from cotare,^[1] a Florentine variant of coitare (“to think”), from Classical Latin cōgitāre (“to think; to ponder”).

coto m (plural coti)

1. (obsolete) thought, opinion

   Synonyms: pensiero, giudizio

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXXI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 76–78; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] "Elli stessi s’accusa;
     questi è Nembrotto per lo cui mal coto
     pur un linguaggio nel mondo non s’usa.["]

     "He accuses himself; this is Nimrod, because of whose evil thought only one language is not used in the world."

• coto¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Spanish coto, of Tupian origin.

coto m (plural coti)

1. the plant Aniba coto

• coto² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Highland Popoluca cut́u.

coto

1. having a cleft lip

coto

1. a person with a cleft lip

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎^[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 29

From Latin cubitum (“elbow”). Doublet of côvado and cúbito. Cognate with Galician cóbado, Spanish codo and possibly Spanish coto, Catalan colze and colzo.

• côto (obsolete)

coto m (plural cotos)

1. stump (remaining part of an amputated limb or organ)

   Synonym: cotoco

2. (by extension) stump (remaining part of an elongated object that has been chopped or mostly consumed)
3. knot (joint of the fingers)

   Synonym: nó

coto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cotar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/ [ˈko.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: co‧to

Inherited from Latin cautus (“safe, secure”). Doublet of cauto. Compare Galician and Portuguese couto.

coto m (plural cotos)

1. preserve, wildlife preserve, land preserve

   Synonym: reserva

2. enclosed area of land

   coto de caza ― hunting ground

3. landmark
4. limit, boundary
5. howler monkey

   Synonyms: cotomono, araguato, carayá, mono aullador

6. (obsolete) mandate

Supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), via Old Spanish cobdo and other Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers.

coto m (plural cotos)

1. (historical) coto, half-palm (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 10.4 cm)

• coto toledano

• línea (¹⁄₅₄ coto), dedo (¹⁄₆ coto), pulgada (²⁄₉ coto), sesma (1+¹⁄₃ cotos), palmo (2 cotos), pie (2+²⁄₃ cotos), codo (4 cotos), vara (8 cotos)

Borrowed from New Latin cottus, from Ancient Greek κόττος (kóttos).

coto m (plural cotos)

1. sculpin (fish)

Borrowed from Quechua koto (“mumps, goiter”).

coto m (plural cotos)

1. (Latin America) goitre

   Synonym: bocio

• “coto”, 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