coyote

• cayeute, cayota, cayote, coyoto (all obsolete)

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈjoʊ.ti/, /kaɪˈ(j)oʊ.ti/, (especially Western US) /ˈkaɪ.(j)oʊt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɔɪˈ(j)əʊt(ɪ)/

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coyote (plural coyotes)

2. (zoology) Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.

   Synonym: prairie wolf

   • 1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:

     Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf.

3. (US, informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
   • 2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night.

• → Irish: cadhóit

coyote (third-person singular simple present coyotes, present participle coyoteing or coyoting, simple past and past participle coyoted)

1. To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}

• coyote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• oocyte, oöcyte

Borrowed from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoːˈjoː.t(ə)/

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• Hyphenation: co‧yo‧te
• Rhymes: -oːtə

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)

1. coyote

   Synonym: prairiewolf

Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.jɔt/

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coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote

• → Romanian: coiot
• → Persian: کایوت (kâyot)

• “coyote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• côtoyé

Unadapted borrowing from English coyote, from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

• IPA^(key): /koˈjɔ.te/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: co‧yò‧te

coyote m (usually invariable, plural (rare, proscribed) coyoti)

1. coyote

Borrowed from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl.

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• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: co‧yo‧te

coyote m (plural coyotes)

1. coyote (canine)
2. (Mexico) coyote (smuggler of illegal immigrants)

   Synonym: pollero

3. (Mexico) fixer, middleman

   Synonym: intermediario

4. (obsolete) a person of mixed Native American and mestizo descent

• “coyote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16

• coyote on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es