cotillear

Spanish

Etymology

From cotilla +‎ -ear.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kotiʝeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʝeˈaɾ]

• IPA^(key): /kotiʝeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʝeˈaɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /kotiʎeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʎeˈaɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /kotiʃeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʃeˈaɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /kotiʒeˈaɾ/ [ko.t̪i.ʒeˈaɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: co‧ti‧lle‧ar

Verb

cotillear (first-person singular present cotilleo, first-person singular preterite cotilleé, past participle cotilleado)

1. to gossip [from early 20th c.]

   Synonyms: chismear, chismorrear, comadrear, copuchear, salsear, chambrear

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cotillear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cotillear
gerund			cotilleando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cotilleado		cotilleada
		plural		cotilleados		cotilleadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cotilleo	cotilleastú cotilleásvos	cotillea	cotilleamos	cotilleáis	cotillean
	imperfect	cotilleaba	cotilleabas	cotilleaba	cotilleábamos	cotilleabais	cotilleaban
	preterite	cotilleé	cotilleaste	cotilleó	cotilleamos	cotilleasteis	cotillearon
	future	cotillearé	cotillearás	cotilleará	cotillearemos	cotillearéis	cotillearán
	conditional	cotillearía	cotillearías	cotillearía	cotillearíamos	cotillearíais	cotillearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cotillee	cotilleestú cotilleésvos2	cotillee	cotilleemos	cotilleéis	cotilleen
	imperfect (ra)	cotilleara	cotillearas	cotilleara	cotilleáramos	cotillearais	cotillearan
	imperfect (se)	cotillease	cotilleases	cotillease	cotilleásemos	cotilleaseis	cotilleasen
	future1	cotilleare	cotilleares	cotilleare	cotilleáremos	cotilleareis	cotillearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cotilleatú cotilleávos	cotillee	cotilleemos	cotillead	cotilleen
	negative		no cotillees	no cotillee	no cotilleemos	no cotilleéis	no cotilleen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• cotilla
• cotilleo
• cotillón

Further reading

• “cotillear”, 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