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

• 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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “picota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios 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), “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

Borrowed from French picot.

picota f (plural picotas)

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

picota

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

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

1. Alternative form of picoti

picota f (plural picotas)

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

• “picota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28