coyote
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
coyote (plural coyotes)
- Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
- Synonym: prairie wolf
- 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:
- Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.
- (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
- 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times[1]:
- Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.
Hyponyms
- Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani)
- California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus)
- Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis)
- Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus)
- Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis)
- Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon)
- Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi)
- Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis)
- mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes)
- northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus)
- Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos)
- Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis)
- Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae)
- Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans)
- Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi)
- San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus)
- Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustror)
- Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis)
- Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Irish: cadhóit
Translations
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Verb
coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
Noun
coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)
- coyote
- Synonym: prairiewolf
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
Noun
coyote m (plural coyotes)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: coiot
Further reading
- “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
Noun
coyote m (usually invariable, plural (rare, proscribed) coyoti)
References
- ^ coyote in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.
Pronunciation
Noun
coyote m (plural coyotes)
- coyote (canine)
- (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)
- Synonym: pollero
- (Mexico) fixer, middleman
- Synonym: intermediario
- (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent
Derived terms
- coyota f
Descendants
Further reading
- “coyote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- coyote on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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