cota (usually uncountable, plural cotas)

1. A perennial herb, Thelesperma megapotamicum (synonym Thelesperma gracile), native to the southwest and western plains of North America and used by the Hopi, Navajo and other American Indians for tea, as a dye, and for other herbal purposes.

• Toca, Cato, coat, CATO, ATOC, taco, TACO, octa-, octa

Inherited from Old Catalan cota, from Frankish *kottō. First attested in 981.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ta]

cota f (plural cotes)

1. (historical) tunic, coat (armoured tunic covering the torso)
2. robe, especially one worn by a choirboy

• cota d'armes (“coat of arms”)
• cota de malla (“chain mail”)
• cota de malles (“chain mail”)

• ausberg

Borrowed from Late Latin quota (pars).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ta]

cota f (plural cotes)

1. (topography) elevation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈko.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈko.ta]

cota

1. feminine singular of cot (“bowed down”)

• “cota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “cota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

cota

1. third-person singular past historic of coter

From Latin quota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔta̝/

cota f (plural cotas)

1. quota (proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division)

Perhaps from Old French cotte, from Medieval Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from a Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔta̝/

cota f (plural cotas)

1. armour coat; chain mail
   • 1381, M. J. Portela Silva, editor, Documentos da catedral de Lugo. Século XIV. Doc. 846‎^[1]:

     mays huna cota de fero et hun bacynete

     and an iron mail and a bascinet

   • 1467, J. A. Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 114:

     Et a morte deste rrey don Sancho, en vespera de Nadal, foy solto Sisnando que estaua preso, et veẽo a Santiago vestido de cota, et loriga et de armas

     At the dead of this kind don Sancho, on Christmas eve, Don Sisnando, who was imprisoned, was released, and he came to Santiago dressed with mail and breastplate and weapons

Unknown. Cognate with Asturian cueta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔtɐ]

cota f (plural cotas)

1. spine of a blade

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cota”, 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), “cota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cota”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.tɑ/

cota

1. genitive plural of cot

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ta

Learned borrowing from Latin quota.^[1][2]

• quota

cota f (plural cotas)

1. quota (proportional part or share; share or proportion assigned to each in a division)

• cotista

From Old French cotte,^[1][2] from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), see also German Kutte.

cota f (plural cotas)

1. an armour coat

Borrowed from Kimbundu kota.^[2]

cota m or f by sense (plural cotas)

1. (Angola) elder (respected old person)
2. (Angola, colloquial) an older person
3. (Portugal, colloquial) an old person
4. (Portugal, colloquial) father, mother

cota

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

Borrowed from French coter.

a cota (third-person singular present cotează, past participle cotat) 1st conjugation

1. (finance) to quote, list

• IPA^(key): /ˈkota/ [ˈko.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: co‧ta

From Old French cote, from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), see also German Kotze and Kutte.

cota f (plural cotas)

1. coat of arms
2. mail (armor)

From Latin quota. Compare cuota.

cota f (plural cotas)

1. elevation

• “cota”, 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