peto

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpeto/
• Hyphenation: pe‧to
• Rhymes: -eto

peto (accusative singular peton, plural petoj, accusative plural petojn)

1. behest, request

• peti

peto

1. meat-eating beast, predator
2. carnivore
3. monster

• (carnivore): petoeläin
• (monster): hirviö

• petomainen

• opet

13th century. Unknown. From *pētto, perhaps onomatopoeic,[1] but note Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“wookpecker”) (Latin pīcus, Danish spætte).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeto̝/

peto m (plural petos)

1. woodpecker
   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 95:

     Iten tordos et melrras cada hũu a coroado. Iten petos et pegas et agoanetas a quatro coroados cada ũu. Iten pasaros miudos et ouos a coroado.

     Item thrushes and blackbirds, each one one crown. Item, woodpeckers and magpies and aguanetas [?], four crowns each one. Item, small birds and eggs, a crown.

   Synonyms: picapau, piquelo

2. money box; poor box
   • 1288, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, V, nº 43, pages 113-115:

     cum pecunia de peto et alie burse

     with money of the moneybox and other purses

   Synonyms: arqueta, boeta

3. pocket
   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten vnna yxola de peto, iten un escoupre, iten vn traado, iten vnna tarabela, iten dous bingueletes, iten duas serras de mao

     item, a pocket adze; item, a chisel; item, a drill; item, an auger; item, two gimlets; item, two handsaws

   Synonyms: bolso, bulso

• petar
• peto de ánimas

• peteiro
• petón

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

From Latin pēditum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.to/, [ˈpeːt̪o]
• Hyphenation: pé‧to

peto m (plural peti)

1. fart, toot

• flato
• loffa
• scorreggia
• vescia

• poté, tope

From Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti (“to fall; fly”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai, “I fly”), Sanskrit पतति (pátati), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (pataiti) and Old Armenian թիռ (tʿiṙ, “flight, desire”). See English feather, pen for more.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.toː/, [ˈpɛ.toː]

petō (present infinitive petere, perfect active petīvī or petiī, supine petītum); third conjugation

1. I ask, beg, request.
2. I make for (somewhere).
3. I seek, aim at, desire.

   Auxilium deorum peto.

   I am seeking the help of the gods.

   Altiora peto.

   I seek higher things.

4. I beg, beseech.
5. I attack.

   Petere aliquem hasta.

   To attack someone with a spear.

6. (ecclesiastical) To missionize or proselytize among the people of a place.

   Peter Romam Marcus Alexandriam petit.

   Peter proselytizes in Rome; Mark, in Alexandria. (Bede, Chronica Minor)

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• peto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• peto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go to a plac: petere locum
    
  • to apply to a person for advice: consilium petere ab aliquo
    
  • to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis
    
  • to quote Socrates as a model of virtue: a Socrate exemplum virtutis petere, repetere
    
  • to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re
    
  • to ask for an oracular response: oraculum petere (ab aliquo)
    
  • to ask a hearing, audience, interview: aditum conveniendi or colloquium petere
    
  • to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • to seek office: petere magistratum, honores
    
  • to exact a penalty from some one: poenam petere, repetere ab aliquo
    
  • to give furlough, leave of absence to soldiers: commeatum militibus dare (opp. petere)
    
  • to beg for mercy from the conqueror: salutem petere a victore
    
  • to seek safety in flight: fuga salutem petere
    

peto

1. nominative singular of peta (“ghost”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeto/, [ˈpet̪o]

Borrowed from Italian petto (“chest, breast”), from Latin pectus (whence also Spanish pecho).

peto m (plural petos)

1. bib

   Synonyms: babero, pechero

2. breastplate

   Synonym: pectoral

3. shirtfront

   Synonym: pechera

4. (zoology) plastron

   Synonym: plastrón

5. (historical) plastron
6. (sports) chest pad

   Synonym: pectoral

• petirrojo

See the etymology of the main entry.

peto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of petar.

• “peto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.