coto

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Scrabble points: 6
Words With Friends: 7
Letters: 4

Definition of coto

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(historical)A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 10.4 cm.

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noun

(historical)A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 10.4 cm.

name

A surname.
(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Cocto (“extinct Chibchan language”).

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Etymology

From Spanish coto (“half-span, quarter-cubit”), supposedly a variant of codo (“Spanish cubit”), from Vulgar Latin forms of Latin cubitum (“elbow, Roman cubit”), but more probably a development of or influenced by Latin quārtus (“a fourth”) from its use as a fourth of the cubit or Latin quattuor (“four”) from its approximation of the span across four fingers.