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coto

/ˈkoto/

noun, masculine/ˈkoto/plural: cotos

preserve, wildlife preserve, land preserve; enclosed area of land; landmark; limit, boundary; howler monkey

coto de cazahunting ground

Synonyms: reserva, hito, límite, frontera, cotomono, araguato, carayá, mono aullador

Inherited from Latin cautus (“safe, secure”). Doublet of cauto. Compare Galician and Portuguese couto.

noun, masculine/ˈkoto/plural: cotos

coto, half-palm (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 10.4 cm)

Supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), via Old Spanish cobdo and other Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers.

noun, masculine/ˈkoto/plural: cotos

sculpin (fish)

Borrowed from New Latin cottus, from Ancient Greek κόττος (kóttos).

noun, masculine/ˈkoto/plural: cotos

goitre

Synonyms: bocio

Borrowed from Quechua koto (“mumps, goiter”).