derrota

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

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Deverbal from derrotar.

derrota f (plural derrotes)

1. rout

   Synonym: esvaïda

2. defeat, downfall, (sports) loss
3. (nautical) course

   Synonym: ruta

• derroter
• derrotisme
• derrotista

derrota

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

• IPA^(key): /deˈrɔta/ [d̪eˈrɔ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: de‧rro‧ta

derrota f (plural derrotas)

1. defeat

• “derrota”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “derrota” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

Deverbal from derrotar.

derrota f (plural derrotas)

1. defeat
2. (nautical) route (course travelled by a ship)
   • 1614, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Peregrinaçam, page 3:

     E velejando todas eſtas naos por ſua derrota prouue a noſſo Senhor que chegarão a ſaluamento a Moçambique, […]

     And our Lord was pleased that all of these ships sailing through their route reached the safety of Mozambique, […]

derrota

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

• IPA^(key): /deˈrota/ [d̪eˈro.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: de‧rro‧ta

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “How did the semantic shift from "broken" to "band/troop" happen?”) Borrowed from French déroute (“rout”), from Old French desroter (“to disband, to disperse”), from rote, route (“band, company, troop, group of armed men”), originally a substantivized feminine of rout (literally “broken”),^[1] from Latin ruptus, perfect passive participle of rumpō (“to break”). Merged with existing Spanish rota (“rout, military defeat”), from the same Latin verb.

derrota f (plural derrotas)

1. defeat [from 16th century]

   Synonym: vencimiento

derrota f sg

1. feminine singular of derroto

From derromper.

derrota f (plural derrotas)

1. path, route, track
2. (nautical) course

   Synonym: derrotero

derrota

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

• “derrota”, 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