peto

Borrowed from Italian petto. Doublet of pit.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpe.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpe.to]

peto m (plural petos)

1. (sports) bib, pinny

   Synonym: pitrall

2. breastplate

• pantaló de peto

• “peto” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “peto”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.to]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.to]

peto

1. first-person singular present indicative of petar

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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

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

peto

1. predator
2. synonym of petoeläin (“carnivore, carnivorous animal”)
3. monster, beast

   Synonym: hirviö

• “peto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• 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, editor, 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

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

peto

1. first-person singular present indicative of petar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.to/^[1]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Hyphenation: pé‧to

From Latin pēditum.

peto m (plural peti)

1. (vulgar) fart, toot

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peto

1. first-person singular present indicative of petare

• pote, poté, tope

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti (“to fly”), assuming a semantic shift from “to fly towards” to “to try to reach”.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛ.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛː.t̪o]

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

1. to ask, beg, request, look for, inquire, petition, entreat
   • 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. to make for (somewhere)
3. to seek, aim at, desire

   Auxilium Deī Dominī nostrī petō.

   I am seeking the help of the Lord our God.

   Altiōra petō.

   I seek higher things.

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.14:

     necessario dispersos hostes ex aedificiis petere

     the enemy necessarily dispersed, ought to look for it in the houses

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

   Petere aliquem hastā.

   To attack someone with a spear.

6. to aim at (with the person attacked in the accusative and the weapon/projectile in the ablative)
7. (Ecclesiastical Latin) 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

• (antonym(s) of “seek”): āversor, abhorreō
• (antonym(s) of “assail”): repugnō, resistō, adversor, obversor, obstō, sistō

• Sardinian: pètere
• → Italian: petere
• → Old French: peter

Reflexes of an assumed variant *petīre:

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pĕtĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 312

• “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^[2], 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
8. (Colombia) a soup or beverage made from boiled corn

   Synonym: mazamorra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peto

1. first-person singular present indicative of petar

• “peto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024