peto

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. (masculine) woodpecker
2. (masculine) money box; poor box
3. (masculine) pocket
4. (figuratively, masculine) nest egg, savings

Verb

first-person singular present indicative of petar

petar

1. (intransitive, transitive) to knock, to impact
2. (transitive) to churn
3. (figuratively, intransitive) to want

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Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpeto̝/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com latim: pīcus

Cognato com dinamarquês: spætte

In summary

13th century. Unknown. From *pētto, perhaps onomatopoeic, but note Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker”) (Latin pīcus, Danish spætte).