pauta

From Spanish pauta, from Latin pacta, plural of pactum.

pauta f (plural pautes)

1. guideline (on a paper)

Borrowed from Spanish pauta, from Latin pacta, plural of pactum. Doublet of pacte.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

pauta f (plural pautes)

1. guideline

• pautat

• “pauta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pauta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pauta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pauta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Occitan pauta, from Vulgar Latin *pauta. Found in northern dialects but displaced in the south by pata, a modern borrowing from French.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯to/

pauta f (plural pautas)

1. paw

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 979: “patte” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pauta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 76

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pauta. Compare Old French poe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯ta/

pauta f (oblique plural pautas, nominative singular pauta, nominative plural pautas)

1. paw
   • 1417–1424,^[1] Cathalogus dels apostolis de Roma, fol. 120^[2]

     .I. lop mal e cruel e afamat, lo qual pres lo cap entre sas pautas premieras, ses tocar de las dens.

     A wicked and hungry wolf who took his head between its paws without touching it with its teeth.

• Occitan: pauta
• →⇒ Basque: potika (“on all fours”)

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*pauta”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 75

• Rhymes: -awtɐ
• Hyphenation: pau‧ta

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin pacta, plural of pactum.

pauta f (plural pautas)

1. agenda
2. the set of guidelines in a notebook
3. (music) staff
4. (Brazil, journalism) assignment

   Synonym: agenda

• pautar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pauta

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpauta/
• Rhymes: -auta
• Syllabification: pau‧ta

Inherited from Old Spanish pauta, borrowed from Latin pacta, plural of pactum.

pauta f (plural pautas)

1. ruler, rule
2. guide, rule, pattern, model
3. guideline, guiding principle

   seguir las pautas ― follow the guidelines

• → Asturian: pauta
• → Catalan: pauta

• “pauta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

pauta

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