coto

From Spanish coto (“half-span, quarter-cubit”), supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), from Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers.

coto (plural cotos)

1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 10.4 cm.

• linea (1/54 coto), dedo (⅙ coto), pulgada (2/9 coto), sesma (1⅓ cotos), palmo (2 cotos), pie (2⅔ cotos), codo (4 cotos), vara (8 cotos)

Borrowed from Spanish cotón.

coto

1. shirt.

From a substrate term *cŏtto-, probably from Proto-Celtic *kotto-, meaning "old" and hence either "grown" or "bent".[1][2][3] Cognate with Asturian cueto.

• cotro

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔto̝/, /ˈkoto̝/

coto m (plural cotos)

1. peak (the top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range)

   Synonyms: bico, outeiro, penedo, pico

Unknown. Compare toco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto̝/, /ˈkɔto̝/

coto m (plural cotos, feminine cota, feminine plural cotas)

1. stump (of a tree or plant)

   Synonyms: cepo, cotón, couce, cozo, toco, trocho

2. stump (of an extremity)

   Synonym: toco

• cotelo
• coteno

coto m (feminine singular cota, masculine plural cotos, feminine plural cotas)

1. maimed; mutilated

   Synonyms: fanado, mutilado

• “coto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “coto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: cò‧to

From the archaic verb coitare (“to think”).

coto m (plural coti)

1. (obsolete) thought, opinion
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXXI, lines 76–78, page 459–460:

     Poi disse a me: «Elli stessi s'accusa; ¶ questi è Nembrotto, per lo cui mal coto ¶ pur un linguaggio nel mondo non s'usa. […] »

     Then said to me: "He doth himself accuse; ¶ this one is Nimrod, by whose evil thought ¶ one language in the world is not still used."

   Synonyms: pensiero, giudizio

• coto¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Spanish coto, of Tupian origin.

coto m (plural coti)

1. the plant Aniba coto

• coto² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Highland Popoluca cut́u.

coto

1. having a cleft lip

coto

1. a person with a cleft lip

• Wolgemuth, Carl et al. (2002) Diccionario náhuatl de los municipios de Mecayapan y Tatahuicapan de Juárez, Veracruz‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 29

From Latin cubitum (“elbow”). Doublet of côvado and cúbito. Cognate with Galician cóbado, Spanish codo and possibly Spanish coto, Catalan colze and colzo.

• côto (obsolete)

coto m (plural cotos)

1. stump (remaining part of an amputated limb or organ)

   Synonym: cotoco

2. (by extension) stump (remaining part of an elongated object that has been chopped or mostly consumed)
3. knot (joint of the fingers)

   Synonym: nó

coto

1. first-person singular present indicative of cotar

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/ [ˈko.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: co‧to

From Latin cautus (“safe, secure”). Doublet of cauto. Compare Galician and Portuguese couto.

coto m (plural cotos)

1. preserve, wildlife preserve, land preserve
2. enclosed area of land

   coto de caza ― hunting ground

3. landmark
4. limit, boundary
5. howler monkey

   Synonyms: cotomono, araguato, carayá, mono aullador

6. (obsolete) mandate

• cautela
• cauto
• cauteloso
• incautar

Supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), via Old Spanish cobdo and other Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers.

coto m (plural cotos)

1. (historical) coto, half-palm, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 10.4 cm

• coto toledano

• línea (1/54 coto), dedo (⅙ coto), pulgada (2/9 coto), sesma (1⅓ cotos), palmo (2 cotos), pie (2⅔ cotos), codo (4 cotos), vara (8 cotos)

From New Latin cottus, from Ancient Greek κόττος (kóttos).

coto m (plural cotos)

1. sculpin (fish)

Borrowed from Quechua koto (“mumps, goiter”).

coto m (plural cotos)

1. (Latin America) goitre

   Synonym: bocio

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