picote

See also: picoté

English

Noun

picote (plural picotes)

1. Alternative form of picot

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

picote

1. inflection of picoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, perhaps from picar (“to itch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈkɔte̝/

Noun

picote m (plural picotes)

1. a cloth made of tow or linen in the warp and wool in the weave
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of picote, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

References

• “picote” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “picote” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “picote” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “picote” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “picote” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Verb

picote

1. inflection of picotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative