pilota

From or related to Spanish pelota (“ball”).

pilota inan

1. jai alai (ball game)

Although jai alai is composed of Basque words, it is not the name actually used in Basque.

• pilotaleku
• pilotari

Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of pila. Compare French pelote, Spanish pelota.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /piˈlɔ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /piˈlɔ.ta/

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pilota f (plural pilotes)

1. ball

   Synonym: baló

2. (vulgar) bollock, testicle
3. A musket ball.
4. A large meatball.

• “pilota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “pilota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

pilota

1. third-person singular past historic of piloter

• IPA^(key): /piˈlɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: pi‧lò‧ta

From earlier pedota, pedotta, from Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “oarblade, oar”). The pil- forms are probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”).

pilota m or f by sense (masculine plural piloti, feminine plural pilote)

1. pilot (aircraft or ship)
2. driver (vehicle)

Including descendants from piloto m.

pilota (invariable)

1. (relational) pilot

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pilota

1. inflection of pilotare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Pilato, oplita, polita

pilota

1. genitive singular form of pilots

• IPA^(key): /piˈlɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: pi‧lo‧ta

pilota m

1. genitive singular of pilot
2. accusative singular of pilot (in the meaning of: aircraft pilot)
3. (colloquial) accusative singular of pilot (in the meaning of: remote control)

• Rhymes: -otɐ

pilota f (plural pilotas)

1. female equivalent of piloto (“pilot”)

From pilar +‎ -ota.

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

pilota f (plural pilotas)

1. exhaustion
2. (finance) loss
3. defeat
4. castigation, reprimand

Borrowed from French piloter.

• IPA^(key): /pi.loˈta/

a pilota (third-person singular present pilotează, past participle pilotat) 1st conj.

1. to pilot

• pilot

pilota f (plural pilotas)

1. female equivalent of piloto

pilota

1. inflection of pilotar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative