pixota

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Etymology

From pixa +‎ -ota.

Pronunciation

Noun

pixota f (plural pixotes)

  1. pearlfish
  2. (engineering) spindle

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese peixota (although the forms pixota is attested earlier, since the 12th century), from peixe (fish) +‎ -ota, or either from pixa (penis) +‎ -ota.[1] Compare Portuguese peixota and Spanish pijota.

Pronunciation

Noun

pixota f (plural pixotas)

  1. European hake (Merluccius merluccius)
    Synonym: pescada
    • 1596, anonymous author, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:
      burazinos / panchozes tamañiños / Va jiba ou maragota / e si acasso ben pijota
      little blackspot sea breams / and well sized axillary sea brams / With cuttlefish and ballan wrasse / and maybe also hake

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “pijota”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos