# picota
## English
### Etymology

From Portuguese picota.

### Noun

picota (plural picotas)
* 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

#### Alternative forms

* piccotah, picotta, picottah

### Anagrams

* Capito, Topic A, atopic, potica

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish picota.

#### Noun

picota f (plural picotes)
* (historical) pillory
    Synonym: costell

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

picota f (plural picotes)
* Alternative form of pigota

### Further reading

* “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.

## French
### Verb

picota
* third-person singular past historic of picoter

### Anagrams

* copiât

## Galician
### Etymology

From Pica (“pick”) +‎ -ota.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piˈkota̝/, /piˈkɔta̝/

### Noun

picota f (plural picotas)
* (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)
* (dressing) cloak with a hood traditionally worn by women in the winter
* (locally) main square

#### Derived terms

* Picota

### References

* 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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piˈkɔ.tɐ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French picot.

#### Noun

picota f (plural picotas)
* pillory
* (nautical) pump-cheek
* shadoof

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

picota
* inflection of picotar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Verb

a picota (third-person singular present picotează, past participle picotat) 1st conjugation
* Alternative form of picoti

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Noun

picota f (plural picotas)
* pillory
* sweet cherry
* (nautical) pump-cheek

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10