acotar
Spanish, verb/akoˈtaɾ/
acotar is spelled A-C-O-T-A-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 37,473rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acotar is a Spanish verb meaning “to survey land, enclose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Poner cotos a un terreno de modo que quede cercado o reservado para el uso por su dueño”.
What does acotar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to survey land, enclose
- 2
to prune or lop a tree
- 3
to annotate a page
- 4
to mark contours on a map
- 5
to qualify, limit
- 6
to check, validate
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Poner cotos a un terreno de modo que quede cercado o reservado para el uso por su dueño. 2. Poner un límite a alguna cosa. 3. Restringir una solución o un problema a cierto conjunto posible de soluciones.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acotar
- acoto first-person present singular
- acoté first-person preterite singular
- acotado participle past
- acotando gerund
- acotada feminine participle past
- acotados masculine participle past
- acotadas feminine participle past
- acotas indicative informal present
- acotás indicative informal present
- acota indicative present singular
- acotamos first-person indicative plural
- acotáis indicative plural present
- acotan indicative plural present
- acotaba first-person imperfect indicative
- acotabas imperfect indicative second-person
- acotábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- acotabais imperfect indicative plural
- acotaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acotar?
- /akoˈtaɾ/
- [a.koˈt̪aɾ]
- [akoˈt̪aɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acotar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acotar in Spanish?
acotar appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).