joto
Esperanto
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “the letter Ι”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjoto/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -oto
- Hyphenation: jo‧to
Noun
joto (accusative singular joton, plural jotoj, accusative plural jotojn)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɔ.tɔ/
- Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
- Syllabification: jo‧to
Noun
joto f
- vocative singular of jota
Spanish
Etymology
Unknown, maybe from choto; also proposed from jota, Spanish name of letter j, because of mocking, festive aspect of the joker card figure applied to some gay males. Another version is that gay and queer men were held in the J bay of the Lecumberri prison in Mexico City (J is pronounced "jota" in Spanish).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxoto/ [ˈxo.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -oto
- Syllabification: jo‧to
Noun
joto m (plural jotos)
- (vulgar, derogatory, Mexico, Honduras) gay (male homosexual)
- (card games) joker
- Synonym: comodín
- (card games, by extension) jack
Derived terms
References
- ^ Carlos Villasana, Angélica Navarrete (6 January 2016) “El palacio negro que inventó a los "jotos"”, in El Universal[1], archived from the original on 4 June 2016: “Cada pasillo se reconocía por una letra: […] “J” de las personas que eran consideradas homosexuales o “jotos”—bautizados así por la letra de su crujía—; […]”
Further reading
- “joto”, 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
Swahili
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu [Term?].
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Noun
joto class V (no plural)