escopeta

escopeta (plural escopetas)

1. Alternative form of escopet.

escopeta f (plural escopetes)

1. shotgun (gun)

Borrowed from French escopette.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əs.kuˈpɛ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əs.koˈpə.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [es.koˈpe.ta]

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escopeta f (plural escopetes)

1. shotgun
2. pokeweed

   Synonym: raïm de moro

• escopetada
• escopetejar
• escopeter

• “escopeta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “escopeta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “escopeta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈpeta/ [es̺.koˈpe.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: es‧co‧pe‧ta

escopeta f (plural escopetas)

1. shotgun

• “escopeta”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Spanish escopeta (“rifle”), from Italian schioppetto, from schioppo (“gun, rifle”).

escopeta f (plural escopetas)

1. rifle

   Synonyms: fuzil, espingarda, rifle, refle

• “escopeta”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “escopeta” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “escopeta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Italian scoppietto.

• IPA^(key): /eskoˈpeta/ [es.koˈpe.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -eta
• Syllabification: es‧co‧pe‧ta

escopeta f (plural escopetas)

1. shotgun

• → Murui Huitoto: kobeda
• → Neapolitan: scoppetta
• → Sicilian: scupetta
• → Portuguese: escopeta
• → Tagalog: eskopeta
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: escopieta

• “escopeta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• escopeta on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es