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A coyote.

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)/, (nonstandard) /kaɪˈoʊ.ti/

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.

    • 1996, AnimaLife, volume 6, page 14:

      The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes. The hand-raised coyotes, however, were ostracized by the wild coyotes […]

  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 The 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.

canine

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.
Canis latrans

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

  • IPA(key): /ˌkoːˈjoːt(ə)/
  • Hyphenation: co‧yo‧te
  • Rhymes: -oːtə

coyote m (plural coyotes, diminutive coyootje n)

  1. coyote (Canis latrans)
    Synonym: prairiewolf

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

coyote m (plural coyotes)

  1. coyote

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

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

  1. coyote
  1. ^ coyote in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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

  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝote/ [koˈʝo.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃote/ [koˈʃo.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒote/ [koˈʒo.t̪e]
  • 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