joto
Esperanto
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “the letter Ι”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈjoto]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -oto
- Hyphenation: jo‧to
Noun
joto (accusative singular joton, plural jotoj, accusative plural jotojn)
- iota
Spanish
Etymology
Unknown, maybe from choto; also proposed from jota, Spanish name of letter j, because of mocking, festive aspect of the joker card figure applied to some gay males. Another version is that gay and queer men were held in the J bay of the Lecumberri prison in Mexico City (J is pronounced "jota" in Spanish).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxoto/ [ˈxo.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -oto
- Syllabification: jo‧to
Noun
joto m (plural jotos)
- (vulgar, derogatory, Mexico, Honduras) gay (male homosexual)
- (card games) the joker card
- (card games, by extension) the jack card
Derived terms
- jotito
- jotería
- jotear
- jotuel
References
- Carlos Villasana; Angélica Navarrete (2016-01-06), “El palacio negro que inventó a los "jotos"”, in El Universal, archived from the original on 2016-06-04, retrieved 2023-01-11: “Cada pasillo se reconocía por una letra: […] “J” de las personas que eran consideradas homosexuales o “jotos”—bautizados así por la letra de su crujía—; […] ”
Further reading
- “joto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
joto (ma class, no plural)
- heat, warmth