pelota
Portuguese
/pəˈlɔtɐ/
noun
Definitions
- a small ball or sphere
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan pelota borrowed from Spanish, Castilian pelota (ball) derived from Old French pelote (small ball) derived from Latin pila (ball, pillar, mole, pier, globe, a pillar).
Origin
Latin
pila
Gloss
ball, pillar, mole, pier, globe, a pillar
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
柱
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pellet English
- pelota English
- *pilotta Latin
- *pilāre Latin
- basipila Latin
- pila Latin
- pilamalleus Latin
- pilula Latin
- apelotar Spanish, Castilian
- hinchapelotas Spanish, Castilian
- pelota Spanish, Castilian
- pelotazo Spanish, Castilian
- pelotear Spanish, Castilian
- pelotero Spanish, Castilian
- tocapelotas Spanish, Castilian
- pilar Norwegian Bokmål
- pelote Old French
- pilar Catalan, Valencian
- pelota Galician
- pêl Welsh
- pfīlāri Old High German
- pelota Occitan
- pilar Occitan
- *pistlā Proto-Italic
- pelota Old Occitan
- peluta Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- peḻot Yatzachi Zapotec