coțor

See also: cotor and Cotor

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ukrainian ко́цур (kócur) of the same meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈt͡sor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: co‧țor

Noun

coțor m (plural coțori) (regional, northern Maramureș)

1. tomcat

   Synonyms: cotoi, mârtan, mâț, motan

   • 1908, fairy tale from Bixad, Oaș Country; gathered in Ion Aurel Candrea, Ovid Densușianu, Theodor Speranția, editors, Graiul nostru: texte din toate părțile locuite de români [Our spoken language: texts from all lands inhabited by Romanians]‎^[1], volume 2, Bucharest: Socec, 1908, page 66:

     […] l-o prins pe mîț ș’o prins a-l drăgosti, ș’o dzis cătă iel:
          ― Coțoru moșului, cel din dzile din cele tinere, că tuma așe o avut și tata unu cîn m’am măritat.

     […] they caught the cat and began to cuddle it, and said to it: “Ah, the old man’s tomcat, the one from younger days, for my father had one just like this when I got married.”

Declension

Declension of coțor

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) coțor	coțorul	(niște) coțori	coțorii
genitive/dative	(unui) coțor	coțorului	(unor) coțori	coțorilor
vocative	coțorule		coțorilor

References

• coțor in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)