pelota

From Spanish pelota (“ball”). Doublet of pellet.

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pelota (uncountable)

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

• Basque pelota

• pilota

• alepot, patole, pot ale, potale

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

1. singular future passive participle of peli

pelota

1. inflection of pelottaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• lopeta, oletpa, peltoa

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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

   Synonyms: balón, bóla

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, 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

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pelota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pelota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pelota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pelota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pelota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Occitan pelota (possibly via Spanish pelota^[1][2][3]), from Old French pelote,^[4] from Latin pila (“ball”).

• Hyphenation: pe‧lo‧ta

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. a small ball or sphere

   Synonym: bola

• em pelota

Via Old French and Occitan from Latin pila.

• IPA^(key): /peˈlota/ [peˈlo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: pe‧lo‧ta

pelota f (plural pelotas)

1. (sports) ball (a round or ellipsoidal object)

   Synonym: balón

   jugar a (lanzar) la pelota ― to go fetch

2. (sports) ball game
3. (figurative, vulgar, usually in the plural) testicle

pelota m or f by sense (plural pelotas)

1. people pleaser, toady

   Synonyms: (Spain) palmero, lameculos, lambeculos, (vulgar, derogatory) lambeculo

• “pelota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Spanish pelota.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /peˈlota/ [pɛˈloː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: pe‧lo‧ta

pelota (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜎᜓᜆ) (sports)

1. ball; rubber ball

   Synonym: bola

2. pelota (any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall)

• “pelota”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “pelota”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018