maroto

Galician

Unknown. Perhaps from Latin mas, maris (“man, manly”) + -oto, or either from a substrate language.^[1]

maroto (feminine marota, masculine plural marotos, feminine plural marotas)

maroto m (plural marotos)

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “maroto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “maroto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “maroto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “morueco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos.

maroto (feminine marota, masculine plural marotos, feminine plural marotas, comparable, comparative mais maroto, superlative o mais maroto or marotíssimo)