peto

Italian petto

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.tu/

peto m (plural petos)

1. (sports) bib, pinny

   Synonym: pitrall

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

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

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

1. behest, request

• peti

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeto/, [ˈpe̞t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification^(key): pe‧to

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- (“woodpecker”) (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 snipes, 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

4. (figurative) nest egg, savings

   Synonyms: aforros, petiño

• petar
• peto de ánimas
• ter un peto

• peteiro
• petón

• “peto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “peto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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/
• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: pé‧to

peto m (plural peti)

1. fart, toot

• flato
• loffa
• scorreggia
• vescia

• pote, poté, tope

From Proto-Italic *petō, 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/, [ˈpɛt̪oː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.to/, [ˈpɛːt̪o]

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

1. I ask, beg, request, look for, inquire.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.465:

     unde petam causās hōrum mōremque sacrōrum?

     Where shall I look for the reasons and practice of these sacred rites?

2. I make for (somewhere).
3. I seek, aim at, desire.

   Auxilium deōrum petō.

   I am seeking the help of the gods.

   Altiōra petō.

   I seek higher things.

   • necessario dispersos hostes ex aedificiis petere ― the enemy necessarily dispersed, ought to look for it in the houses (Caesar, de Bello Gallico, VII, 14)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.381:

     “Ī, sequere Ītaliam ventīs, pete rēgna per undās.”

     “Go, pursue Italy upon the winds, seek [your] realm across the waves.”

4. I beg, beseech
   1. I beg of/from someone (ab + ablative) for something (+ accusative or a clause with ut or ne)
5. I attack, I assail, I thrust at

   Petere aliquem hastā.

   To attack someone with a spear.

6. I aim at (with the person attacked in the accusative and the weapon/projectile in the ablative)
7. (ecclesiastical) To missionize or proselytize among the people of a place.
   • (Bede, Chronica Minor)

     Petrus Rōmam Mārcus Alexandriam petit.

     Peter proselytizes in Rome; Mark, in Alexandria.

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

• (demand, beg): flagito, efflagito, quaesō, rogō, ērogō, expeto, repeto, exigo, precor, rogitō, exposcō, exōrō, requīrō
• (seek): requīrō, affectō, cupiō, quaerō, indigeō, circumspiciō, studeō concupiō, expetō, spectō, voveō, appetō, aveō, sitiō, intendō, tendō
• (assail): invādō, oppugnō, incurrō, impetō, incessō, aggredior, īnstō, excurrō, concurrō, occurrō, inruō, accēdō, intrō, incēdō, incidō, irrumpō, adorior, adeō, opprimō, accurrō, appetō, arripiō, assiliō, invehō, lacessō

• (seek): āversor, abhorreō
• (assail): repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō

• Sardinian: pètere
• Vulgar Latin: *petīre (see there for further descendants)
• → Old French: peter
• English: petition

• “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”)

peto (Cyrillic spelling пето)

1. vocative singular of peta

peto

1. accusative/instrumental singular of peta

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeto/ [ˈpe.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: pe‧to

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

peto m (plural petos)

1. overalls (US, Canada, Australia), dungarees (UK) (loose fitting pair of pants with supporting cross-straps and a panel of material in the chest (called a bib), often associated with farm work)
2. breastplate

   Synonym: pechera

3. shirtfront

   Synonym: pechera

4. (sports) chest protector, chestguard, chestpad

   Synonyms: peto protector, pectoral

5. (sports) bib, pinny (a colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities)
6. (zoology) plastron

   Synonym: plastrón

7. (historical) plastron

• petirrojo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peto

1. first-person singular present indicative of petar

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