pilota

From or related to Spanish pelota (“ball”).

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /pilota/ [pi.lo.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /piʎota/ [pi.ʎo.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -ota, -a
• Hyphenation: pi‧lo‧ta

pilota inan

1. Basque pelota

• pilotaleku
• pilotari

From Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of pila. Compare French pelote, Spanish pelota.

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

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pilota f (plural pilotes)

1. ball

   Synonym: baló

2. (vulgar) bollock, testicle
3. a musket ball
4. a large meatball

• pilotari
• pilotilla

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

pilota

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

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pilota

1. third-person singular past historic of piloter

• IPA^(key): /piˈlɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: pi‧lò‧ta

From earlier pedota, pedotta, from Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “oarblade, oar”). The pil- forms are probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”).

pilota m or f by sense (masculine plural piloti, feminine plural pilote)

1. pilot (aircraft or ship)
2. driver (vehicle)

Including descendants from piloto m.

pilota (invariable)

1. (relational) pilot

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pilota

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

• Pilato, oplita, polita

pilota

1. genitive singular of pilots

• IPA^(key): /piˈlɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: pi‧lo‧ta

pilota m

1. genitive singular of pilot
2. accusative singular of pilot (in the meaning of: aircraft pilot)
3. (colloquial) accusative singular of pilot (in the meaning of: remote control)

From pilar +‎ -ota.

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

pilota f (plural pilotas)

1. exhaustion
2. (finance) loss
3. defeat
4. castigation, reprimand

• Rhymes: -otɐ

pilota f (plural pilotas)

1. female equivalent of piloto (“pilot”)

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

pilota

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

Borrowed from French piloter.

• IPA^(key): /pi.loˈta/

a pilota (third-person singular present pilotează, past participle pilotat) 1st conjugation

1. to pilot

• pilot

• IPA^(key): /piˈlota/ [piˈlo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: pi‧lo‧ta

pilota f (plural pilotas)

1. female equivalent of piloto

pilota

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