picota

From Portuguese picota.

picota (plural picotas)

1. A machine for raising water consisting of a long lever or yard, pivotted on an upright post, weighted on the short arm and bearing a line and bucket on the long arm.

   Synonym: shadoof

• piccotah, picotta, picottah

• Capito, Topic A, atopic, potica

Borrowed from Spanish picota.

picota f (plural picotes)

1. (historical) pillory

   Synonym: costell

picota f (plural picotes)

1. alternative form of pigota

• “picota”, 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
• “picota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

picota

1. third-person singular past historic of picoter

• copiât

From Pica (“pick”) +‎ -ota.

• IPA^(key): /piˈkota̝/, /piˈkɔta̝/

picota f (plural picotas)

1. (historical) pillory
   • 1435, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 114:

     et qual quer persona que fose achado que leuase a dita rodriga das viñas alleas, se fose moller, que pagase de pena por cada vez dez mrs e de mays que lle fesesen tomar a rodriga á viña et á poer ena viña, segundo que a tirara, et que a posesen por hum dia ena picota

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (dressing) cloak with a hood traditionally worn by women in the winter
3. (locally) main square

• Picota

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “picota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “picota”, 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), “picota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “picota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

Borrowed from French picot.

picota f (plural picotas)

1. pillory
2. (nautical) pump-cheek
3. shadoof

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

picota

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

• “picota”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “picota”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

a picota (third-person singular present picotează, past participle picotat) 1st conjugation

1. alternative form of picoti

• IPA^(key): /piˈkota/ [piˈko.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: pi‧co‧ta

picota f (plural picotas)

1. pillory
2. sweet cherry
3. (nautical) pump-cheek

• “picota”, 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