# coyote
## English
### Alternative forms

* cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
* (UK) IPA: /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/, (nonstandard) /kaɪˈoʊ.ti/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

coyote (plural coyotes)
* (zoology) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
    Synonym: prairie wolf
** 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
** 1996, AnimaLife, volume 6, page 14:The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes. The hand-raised coyotes, however, were ostracized by the wild coyotes […]
* (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
** 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in The New York Times‎:Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.

#### Hyponyms

* Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani)
* California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus)
* Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis)
* Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus)
* Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis)
* Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon)
* Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi)
* Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis)
* mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes)
* northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus)
* Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos)
* Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis)
* Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae)
* Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans)
* Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi)
* San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus)
* Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustror)
* Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis)
* Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi)

#### Derived terms

* anticoyote
* coydog
* coyote brush
* coyote bush
* coyote gourd
* coyoteite
* coyotelike
* coyote melon
* Coyote State
* coyote time
* coyote tobacco
* coyote ugly
* coywolf
* dogote
* hyote
* Wile E. Coyote
* woyote

#### Related terms

* coyotillo

#### Descendants

* → Irish: cadhóit

#### Translations
### Verb

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)
* To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

### See also

* canids: coyote · dog · fox · jackal · wolf

### Further reading

* coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* oocyte, oöcyte

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkoːˈjoːt(ə)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: co‧yo‧te
* Rhymes: -oːtə

### Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)
* coyote (Canis latrans)
    Synonym: prairiewolf

### Further reading

* coyote on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.jɔt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)
* coyote

#### Derived terms

* coyloup

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: coiot
* → Persian: کایوت (kâyot)

### Further reading

* “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* côtoyé

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈjɔ.te/
* Rhymes: -ɔte
* Hyphenation: co‧yò‧te

### Noun

coyote m (usually invariable, plural (rare, proscribed) coyoti)
* coyote

### References

* ↑ coyote in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃote/ [koˈʃo.t̪e]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒote/ [koˈʒo.t̪e]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -ote
* Syllabification: co‧yo‧te

### Noun

coyote m (plural coyotes)
* coyote (canine)
* (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
    Synonym: pollero
* (Mexico) fixer, middleman
    Synonym: intermediario
* (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent

#### Derived terms

* coyota f

#### Descendants

* → English: coyote
* → French: coyote
* → German: Kojote
* → Italian: coyote
* → Japanese: コヨーテ (koyōte)
* → Korean: 코요테 (koyote)
* → Russian: койо́т (kojót)
* → Tagalog: koyote

### Further reading

* “coyote”, 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
* coyote on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$