acotar

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.kuˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.koˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.koˈtaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Uncertain.

acotar (first-person singular present acoto, first-person singular preterite acotí, past participle acotat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /o/

1. (transitive, reflexive) to bend down

   Synonym: ajupir

   • 1955, Xavier Benguerel, El testament:

     S'acotà a l'escalfapanxes amb l'intent de cremar la carta, però es repensà.

     She bent down to the fireplace with the intent of burning the letter but changed her mind.

2. (transitive) to cut or prune a tree at the ground level so that it can grow sprouts

From a- +‎ cota +‎ -ar.

acotar (first-person singular present acoto, first-person singular preterite acotí, past participle acotat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. (transitive, theater) to annotate (a script of a play) with theatrical notes
2. (transitive, topography) to annotate (a topographical map) with indications of the height of the land
3. (transitive, mathematics) to bound (a set)

• “acotar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “acotar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “acotar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “acotar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• acorat, actora, atraco, carota, coarta, croata, tocara, tocarà

From a- +‎ coto (“reserve”) +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /akoˈtaɾ/ [a.koˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧co‧tar

acotar (first-person singular present acoto, first-person singular preterite acoté, past participle acotado)

1. to survey land, enclose
2. to prune or lop a tree
3. to annotate a page
4. to mark contours on a map
5. (figurative) to qualify, limit
   • 2024 February 19, José Marcos, “Sánchez urge a “consolidar liderazgos” en las comunidades “que incluso trasciendan la marca” del PSOE”, in El País‎:

     Lo que pasa en Galicia se queda en Galicia. Al menos esa es la pretensión de Ferraz, que acota el cataclismo de las elecciones gallegas a la falta de un proyecto consolidado pese a su respaldo a José Ramón Gómez Besteiro.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. (figurative) to check, validate

• “acotar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• atraco, croata