Alternative forms

Adjective

cutoCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#CUTOCategory:Pali adjective forms#CUTOCategory:Pali adjective forms in Latin script#CUTOCategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#CUTOCategory:Pages with entries#CUTOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CUTO

1. nominative singular masculine of cuta, which is past participle of cavati (“to die away from a world”)

Etymology

Borrowed from PipilCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Pipil#CUTOCategory:Spanish terms derived from Pipil#CUTO kutu (“short, dismembered”) cf. Pipil mākutu (“one-armed, with an arm missing”), related to Classical NahuatlCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl#CUTOCategory:Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl#CUTO cotoctic (“dismembered”), macotoctic (“dismembered of one arm”), quechcotoctic (“decapitated”).

The DRAE states it is borrowed from a Nahuatl cutuche (“cut”), but this is perhaps a spurious Nahuatl word, not found in Lyle Campbell's Pipil Nawat lexicon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuto/ [ˈku.t̪o]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#CUTOCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#CUTO
• Rhymes: -utoCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uto#CUTOCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/uto/2 syllables#CUTO
• Syllabification: cu‧to

Adjective

cuto (feminine cuta, masculine plural cutos, feminine plural cutas)Category:Spanish lemmas#CUTOCategory:Spanish adjectives#CUTOCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#CUTOCategory:Pages with entries#CUTOCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CUTO (colloquialCategory:Spanish colloquialisms#CUTO)

1. (GuatemalaCategory:Guatemalan Spanish#CUTO, HondurasCategory:Honduran Spanish#CUTO, El SalvadorCategory:Salvadoran Spanish#CUTO) missing an arm or forearm; one-armed, or one-forearmed

   Synonym: amputado unilateral

   Mi segunda hija me nació cuta.

   My second daughter was born missing an arm.

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   Quedó cuto después del accidente.

   He lost his arm after the accident.

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2. (El SalvadorCategory:Salvadoran Spanish#CUTO, of clothes, especially pants) short

   Synonym: corto

   Esos pantalones te quedan cutos.

   Those pants are too short for you.

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Further reading

• “cuto”, 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
• “cuto”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010