cotorra
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cotorra.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /koˈto.rə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kuˈto.rə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /koˈto.ra/
Noun
cotorra f (plural cotorres)
- Any of various species of small parrots or parakeets.
- (figurative) chatterbox
- Synonym: xerradora
Hypernyms
- (small parrot): lloro
Derived terms
- cotorra argentina
- cotorra de Kramer
- cotorra multicolor
- cotorreta
Further reading
- “cotorra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
Etymology
Simplification from cotorrera, from cotarrera, from cotarro, from coto, from Latin cautus (“defended”).
Noun
cotorra f (plural cotorras)
- small parrot
- magpie
- chatterbox
- (Mexico) an unmarried woman past the normal marrying age according to social traditions
- Synonym: solterona
Related terms
- cotorra austral
- cotorra cachaña
- cotorrear
- cotorreo
- cotorrera
- cotorrita
- cotorro
Adjective
cotorra f sg
- feminine singular of cotorro
Further reading
- “cotorra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014