coțor
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ukrainian ко́цур (kócur) of the same meaning.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈt͡sor/
- Rhymes: -or
- Hyphenation: co‧țor
Noun
coțor m (plural coțori) (regional, northern Maramureș)
- tomcat
- 1908, fairy tale from Bixad, Oaș Country; gathered in Ion Aurel Candrea, Ovid Densușianu, Theodor Speranția, editors, Graiul nostru: texte din toate părțile locuite de români [Our spoken language: texts from all lands inhabited by Romanians], volume 2, Bucharest: Socec, 1908, page 66:
- […] l-o prins pe mîț ș’o prins a-l drăgosti, ș’o dzis cătă iel:
― Coțoru moșului, cel din dzile din cele tinere, că tuma așe o avut și tata unu cîn m’am măritat.- […] they caught the cat and began to cuddle it, and said to it: “Ah, the old man’s tomcat, the one from younger days, for my father had one just like this when I got married.”
Declension
References
- coțor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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