cotorra
Appearance
See also: Cotorra
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cotorra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cotorra f (plural cotorres)
- any of various species of small parrots or parakeets
- (figurative) chatterbox
- Synonym: xerradora
Hypernyms
[edit]- (small parrot): lloro
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cotorra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Simplification from cotorrera, from cotarrera, from cotarro, from coto, from Latin cautus (“defended”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cotorra f (plural cotorras)
- small parrot
- magpie
- chatterbox
- (Mexico) an unmarried woman past the normal marrying age according to social traditions
- Synonym: solterona
Related terms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cotorra f sg
Further reading
[edit]- “cotorra”, 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
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- Catalan terms borrowed from Spanish
- Catalan terms derived from Spanish
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Parrots
- ca:People
- ca:Talking
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ora
- Rhymes:Spanish/ora/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Mexican Spanish
- Spanish non-lemma forms
- Spanish adjective forms
- es:Birds
- es:People