cohete
Appearance
Asturian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish cohete, from Catalan coet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cohete m (plural cohetes)
Further reading
[edit]- García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “cuete”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
- “cohete”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cuete (Hispanic America)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Catalan coet, ultimately from Latin cauda (“tail”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cohete m (plural cohetes)
- skyrocket
- Synonym: petardo
- rocket
- 2023 September 3, Carlos Marcos, quoting Bertha M. Yebra, “Memorias de una diosa del rock en España: “Toda mi vida ha sido como ir en un cohete””, in El País[1], Madrid: Ediciones El País, S.L., →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 April 2026:
- Todo fue casual e improvisado. Yo nunca tuve ningún plan ni provoqué nada. Toda mi vida ha sido como ir en un cohete”, resume.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2026 June 12, Bernard Condon, “Acciones de SpaceX se disparan en debut en Wall Street y convierten a Elon Musk en el 1er billonario”, in AP News[2], archived from the original on 12 June 2026:
- Elon Musk se convirtió en el primer billonario del mundo cuando las acciones de su empresa de cohetes SpaceX se dispararon en la mayor oferta pública inicial de la historia de Wall Street.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Mexico, Uruguay) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
- (Mexico, Honduras) pistol[1]
- Synonym: pistola
- (Mexico) blasthole
- (Mexico) dynamite cartridge
- (Mexico) complication; entanglement
- (Mexico, double entendre, colloquial, slang) penis
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Asturian: cohete, cuete
- → Cebuano: kuwitis
- → Cebuano: kuwitis
- → Maguindanao: kuitis
- → Maranao: kowitis
- → Tagalog: kuwitis
- → Tausug: kulitis
References
[edit]- ^ Gillespie-Duelos, Eduardo. (1975) A Glossary of San Antonio Jargon. American Speech, vol. 50, no. 1/2, 140–142.
Further reading
[edit]- “cohete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
Categories:
- Asturian terms borrowed from Spanish
- Asturian terms derived from Spanish
- Asturian terms derived from Catalan
- Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Asturian/ete
- Rhymes:Asturian/ete/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Asturian/uete
- Rhymes:Asturian/uete/3 syllables
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian nouns
- Asturian masculine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Catalan
- Spanish terms derived from Catalan
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ete
- Rhymes:Spanish/ete/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish terms with quotations
- Mexican Spanish
- Uruguayan Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Spanish colloquialisms
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- es:Drinking
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