peyote

English

peyote

Etymology

From Spanish peyote, from Classical Nahuatl peyotl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peɪˈjoʊti/

Noun

peyote (countable and uncountable, plural peyotes)

1. A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for their psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.
2. A mescal button produced by the plant.

Synonyms

• (Lophophora williamsii): mescal

Derived terms

• peyote gravy

Translations

cactus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佩奧特掌 / 佩奥特掌 (pèi'àotèzhǎng), 烏羽玉 / 乌羽玉 (wūyǔyù), 皮約特仙人掌 / 皮约特仙人掌 (píyuētè xiānrénzhǎng), 仙人球膏 (xiānrénqiúgāo)

• Esperanto: pejotlo
• Estonian: peioote-uimakaktus
• Finnish: myrkkykaktus (fi), meskaliinikaktus (fi)
• French: peyotl (fr) m
• Huichol: hikuri
• Japanese: ペヨーテ (peyōte)
• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: peyotl

• Polish: pejotl m
• Portuguese: peiote (pt) m, mescal m
• Russian: пейот (ru) m (pejot)
• Spanish: peyote (es) m
• Swedish: peyote (sv) c, meskalinkaktus c
• Ukrainian: пейот m (pejot), пейотль (pejotlʹ)

Further reading

• peyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lophophora williamsii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lophophora williamsii on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Spanish

peyote

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl peyotl.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /peˈʝote/ [peˈʝo.t̪e]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /peˈʝote/ [peˈʝo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /peˈʃote/ [peˈʃo.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /peˈʒote/ [peˈʒo.t̪e]

• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: pe‧yo‧te

Noun

peyote m (plural peyotes)

1. peyote

Descendants

• → Catalan: peiot
• → English: peyote

Further reading

• “peyote”, 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