loita

From Old Galician-Portuguese luita (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctārī. Cognate with Portuguese luta and Spanish lucha.

• aloita, luita, luta

• IPA^(key): /ˈlojta/
• Rhymes: -ojta
• Hyphenation: loi‧ta

loita f (plural loitas)

1. fight, struggle
2. wrestling

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “luita”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “luita”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “loita”, 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), “loita”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “loita”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

loita

1. inflection of loitar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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loita

1. to pray

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “молиться”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika