picota

English

Etymology

From Portuguese picota.

Noun

picota (plural picotas)

1. A machine for raising water consisting of a long lever or yard, pivotted on an upright post, weighted on the short arm and bearing a line and bucket on the long arm.

   Synonym: shadoof

Alternative forms

• picotta, picottah

Anagrams

• Capito, Topic A, atopic, potica

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish picota.

Noun

picota f (plural picotes)

1. (historical) pillory

   Synonym: costell

Etymology 2

Noun

picota f (plural picotes)

1. Alternative form of pigota

Further reading

• “picota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “picota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

picota

1. third-person singular past historic of picoter

Anagrams

• copiât

Galician

Etymology

From Pica (“pick”) ‎ -ota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈkota̝/, /piˈkɔta̝/

Noun

picota f (plural picotas)

1. (historical) pillory
   • 1435, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 114:

     et qual quer persona que fose achado que leuase a dita rodriga das viñas alleas, se fose moller, que pagase de pena por cada vez dez mrs e de mays que lle fesesen tomar a rodriga á viña et á poer ena viña, segundo que a tirara, et que a posesen por hum dia ena picota

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (dressing) cloak with a hood traditionally worn by women in the winter
3. (locally) main square

Derived terms

• Picota

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “picota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “picota”, 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), “picota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “picota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈkɔ.tɐ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French picot.

Noun

picota f (plural picotas)

1. pillory
2. (nautical) pump-cheek
3. shadoof

Etymology 2

Verb

picota

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

Romanian

Verb

a picota (third-person singular present picotează, past participle picotat) 1st conjugation

1. Alternative form of picoti

Conjugation

    conjugation of picota (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a picota
gerund			picotând
past participle			picotat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	picotez	picotezi	picotează	picotăm	picotați	picotează
	imperfect	picotam	picotai	picota	picotam	picotați	picotau
	simple perfect	picotai	picotași	picotă	picotarăm	picotarăți	picotară
	pluperfect	picotasem	picotaseși	picotase	picotaserăm	picotaserăți	picotaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să picotez	să picotezi	să picoteze	să picotăm	să picotați	să picoteze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		picotează			picotați
	negative		nu picota			nu picotați

Spanish

Noun

picota f (plural picotas)

1. pillory
2. sweet cherry
3. (nautical) pump-cheek

Further reading

• “picota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28