pelota

Spanish pelota (“ball”)

pelota (uncountable)

1. Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.

• pilota

• patole, pot ale, potale

pelota (accusative singular pelotan, plural pelotaj, accusative plural pelotajn)

1. singular future passive participle of peli

pelota

1. Indicative present connegative form of pelottaa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of pelottaa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of pelottaa.

• lopeta, oletpa, peltoa

pelota

1. third-person singular past historic of peloter

From Old Occitan pelota or Old French pelote, from Latin pila (“ball”).

• IPA^(key): /peˈlɔta̝/

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pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. ball
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. Introducción e texto. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 440:

     tijña ẽna mão hũa pelota pequena, et asynaua pera a deytar á agia, et ela fogía et voaua ata que a pelota passaua per ela

     he hold in his hand a small ball, and he was making signals to throw it to the eagle, and the eagle fled and flew until the ball passed by

   Synonyms: balón, bóla

2. butter pellet
3. an abnormal growth in the legs of the cattle
4. (figuratively, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle

• “pelota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pelota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pelota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pelota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pelota” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. a small ball or sphere

Via Provençal from Latin pila.

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. ball

pelota m or f (plural pelotas)

1. people pleaser, toady, sycophant, bootlicker, toadeater, brown noser, kiss-ass (North America)

• lameculos m or f, lambeculos m or f, lambeculo m or f (vulgar, derogatory)

• palmero m, palmera f

• hacer la pelota
• pelotear
• hecho pelota