# cota
## English
### Noun

cota (usually uncountable, plural cotas)
* A perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.

### Anagrams

* Toca, Cato, coat, CATO, ATOC, taco, TACO, octa-, octa

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan cota, from Frankish *kottō. First attested in 981.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ta]

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotes)
* (historical) tunic, coat (armoured tunic covering the torso)
* robe, especially one worn by a choirboy

##### Derived terms

* cota d'armes (“coat of arms”)
* cota de malla (“chain mail”)
* cota de malles (“chain mail”)

##### See also

* ausberg

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Late Latin quota (pars).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ta]

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotes)
* (topography) elevation

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈko.ta]

#### Adjective

cota
* feminine singular of cot (“bowed down”)

### Further reading

* “cota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Verb

cota
* third-person singular past historic of coter

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Latin quota.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔta̝/

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* quota (proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division)

### Etymology 2

Perhaps from Old French cotte, from Medieval Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from a Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔta̝/

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* armour coat; chain mail
** 1381, M. J. Portela Silva, editor, Documentos da catedral de Lugo. Século XIV. Doc. 846‎:mays huna cota de fero et hun bacyneteand an iron mail and a bascinet
** 1467, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 114:Et a morte deste rrey don Sancho, en vespera de Nadal, foy solto Sisnando que estaua preso, et veẽo a Santiago vestido de cota, et loriga et de armasAt the dead of this kind don Sancho, on Christmas eve, Don Sisnando, who was imprisoned, was released, and he came to Santiago dressed with mail and breastplate and weapons

### Etymology 3

Unknown. Cognate with Asturian cueta.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɔtɐ]

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* spine of a blade

### References

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

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.tɑ/

### Noun

cota
* genitive plural of cot

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.tɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
* Hyphenation: co‧ta

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin quota.

#### Alternative forms

* quota

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* quota (proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division)

##### Related terms

* cotista

### Etymology 2

From Old French cotte, from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), see also German Kutte.

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* an armour coat

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Kimbundu kota.

#### Noun

cota m or f by sense (plural cotas)
* (Angola) elder (respected old person)
* (Angola, colloquial) an older person
* (Portugal, colloquial) an old person
* (Portugal, colloquial) father, mother

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

cota
* inflection of cotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* 1 2 “cota”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* 1 2 3 “cota”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French coter.

### Verb

a cota (third-person singular present cotează, past participle cotat) 1st conjugation
* (finance) to quote, list

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkota/ [ˈko.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ota
* Syllabification: co‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Old French cote, from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), see also German Kotze and Kutte.

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* coat of arms
* mail (armor)

##### Derived terms

* cota de malla
* cotilla

### Etymology 2

From Latin quota. Compare cuota.

#### Noun

cota f (plural cotas)
* elevation

### Further reading

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