cotilla

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cotilla (“corset”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈti.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koˈti.ʎa]

Noun

cotilla f (plural cotilles)

1. corset
2. (figurative) restraint
   • 2021 July 20, “Un revulsiu per a la informalitat”, in El País‎:

     Si abans era poc habitual que un escriptor optés per caracteritzar els seus personatges amb un registre informal, o ho feia a mitges i esquitxant el text de cursives, ara han caigut totes les cotilles i la informalitat campa lliurement; […]

     It used to be uncommon for writers to characterize their protagonists in an informal tone, or when done at all, it was half-hearted and sprinkled with italics, but these restraints are gone now and informality has been set free; […]

Further reading

• “cotilla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cotilla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koˈtiʝa/ [koˈt̪i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): /koˈtiʝa/ [koˈt̪i.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /koˈtiʎa/ [koˈt̪i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /koˈtiʃa/ [koˈt̪i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /koˈtiʒa/ [koˈt̪i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: co‧ti‧lla

Etymology 1

From cotorra (“parrot”), which also means "talkative" in informal speech.

Adjective

cotilla m or f (masculine and feminine plural cotillas)

1. (colloquial) gossipy, busybodyish, nosy

Noun

cotilla m or f by sense (plural cotillas)

1. (colloquial) gossip, busybody, nosy

Derived terms

• cotillear

Etymology 2

Diminutive of cota (“coat of mail”).

Noun

cotilla f (plural cotillas)

1. corset

   Synonyms: corsé, corset

Descendants

• → Catalan: cotilla

Further reading

• “cotilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024