coyote

See also: Coyote

English

a coyote

Alternative forms

  • cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /kəˈjoʊti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ(j)oʊt/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/
  • (file)

Noun

coyote (plural coyotes)

  1. Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
    • 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, p. 119
      Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
  2. A smuggler of illegal immigrants across the land border from Mexico into the United States of America.

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Verb

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)

  1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)

  1. coyote

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.jɔt/
  • (file)

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

  1. coyote

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Noun

coyote m (plural coyoti)

  1. coyote

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈɟ͡ʝote/, [koˈʝot̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ote

Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)

  1. coyote (canine)
  2. (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
  3. (Mexico) fixer, middleman
  4. (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent

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  • coyota f

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