pirot

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English

Etymology

Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".

Noun

pirot (plural pirots)

  1. (philosophy) A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
    • 1988, Richard E. Grandy, Richard Warner, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality, page 31:
      Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).
    • 2005, S. Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, page 123:
      Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.

See also

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiɾot/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧rot

Adjective

pírot (plural pirirot, intensified piroton, plural intensified piriroton, Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜍᜓᜆ᜔)

  1. (Partido, Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) sleepy; drowsy
    Synonym: tungka

Derived terms

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧rot
  • IPA(key): /piˈɾot/

Noun

pirót (Badlit spelling ᜉᜒᜇᜓᜆ᜔)

  1. a small girl or a petite woman
  2. the golden-headed cisticola (Cisticola exilis)

Quotations

Norman

Noun

pirot m (plural pirots)

  1. Alternative form of pithot

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pi(n)zit (“squeeze between thumb and finger”). Doublet of pindot.

Pronunciation

Noun

pirot (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜇᜓᜆ᜔)

  1. act of pinching and twisting with fingers (e.g. a moustache)
    Synonyms: kirot, pingal, piral, pirat

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “pirot”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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