garrote

English

Alternative forms

• garrotte (UK)
• garotte

Etymology

From Spanish garrote. Doublet of garrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈɹɒt/, /ɡəˈɹoʊt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt, -əʊt

Noun

garrote (plural garrotes)

1. (historical) An iron collar formerly used in Spain to execute people by strangulation.
   • 1847, William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru‎^[1]:

     […] promising that, by so doing, the painful death to which he had been sentenced should be commuted for the milder form of the garrote,—a mode of punishment by strangulation, used for criminals in Spain.

   • 1892, Walt Whitman, “To a Foil’d European Revolutionaire”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 287:

     The prison, scaffold, garrote, handcuffs, iron necklace and leadballs do their work, / The named and unnamed heroes pass to other spheres,

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, →ISBN:

     The Spanish had responded to the insurgency with characteristic brutality. They gave rebels the "usual four shots in the back" or the garrote—an iron collar tightened around the victim's neck with a screw until he was strangled to death.

2. Something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation.

   The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.

Translations

iron collar used to execute by strangulation

• Catalan: garrot (ca) m
• Dutch: wurgpaal (nl) m
• German: Würgeisen n
• Portuguese: garrote (pt) m
• Russian: гаррота (ru) f (garrota)
• Spanish: garrote (es) m

cord or wire used for strangulation

• German: Garotte (de) f
• Portuguese: garrote (pt) m
• Russian: гаррота (ru) f (garrota)

Verb

garrote (third-person singular simple present garrotes, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. (transitive) To execute by strangulation, to kill using a garrote.
2. (transitive) To suddenly render insensible by semi-strangulation, and then to rob.
   • 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Round the Red Lamp […] :

     “And then Lee may have fallen into the river, and Norton been garrotted. It is certainly a formidable indictment that you have against Bellingham; but if you were to place it before a police magistrate, he would simply laugh in your face.”

   • 1905, Henry J. Coke, Tracks of a Rolling Stone‎^[2]:

     About this time the police reports were full of cases of garrotting. The victim was seized from behind, one man gagged or burked him, while another picked his pocket.

Translations

to kill using a garrote

• German: strangulieren (de), erwürgen (de)

See also

• garrot

Galician

Galician carro; note the garrote going through the end of the axletree

Etymology

First attested in the 14th century. From Old French garrot, itself either from Old Occitan leg and the suffix -ot, from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”), or from a Germanic source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrɔte/ [ɡɑˈrɔ.t̪ɪ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɡaˈrɔte/ [ɡɑˈrɔ.t̪ɪ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ħaˈrɔte/ [ħɑˈrɔ.t̪ɪ]

• Rhymes: -ɔte
• Hyphenation: ga‧rrote

Noun

garrote m (plural garrotes)

1. garrot used to limit the movement of an animal
2. bolt or garrot which affixes each wheel to the axletree of a traditional Galician cart

   Synonyms: gorrón, torno

3. (archaic) press
   • 1357, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), "De Viveiro en la Edad Media", Estudios Mindonienses, 7, page 139:

     afforo [...] a meatade de toda essa minna binna, con o herdamento que ias a par dela [...] con a meatade do lagar et garrote que y esta assy commo esta acaroada de muro

     I rent to you [...] half of my vineyard, with the possessions that are adjacent to it [...] with half of the winepress that is there, as it is delimited by a wall

Related terms

• xarrete

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garrote”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garrote”, 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), “garrote”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garrote”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Noun

garrote f

1. plural of garrota

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁo.t͡ʃi/ [ɡaˈho.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁo.t͡ʃi/ [ɡaˈho.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁo.t͡ʃi/ [ɡaˈχo.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁo.te/ [ɡaˈho.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈʁo.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: gar‧ro‧te

Etymology 1

Noun

garrote m (plural garrotes)

1. (historical) an iron necklace used for execution in Spain and Portugal
2. (medicine) bandage used to compress a limb and prevent bleeding

   Synonyms: torniquete, atadura

3. withers (part of a quadruped's body between the shoulder and the neck)

   Synonym: cernelha

4. needle

   Synonym: agulha

5. (figuratively) angst

   Synonyms: angústia, aflição

6. (Brazil) a calf between two and four years old

Derived terms

• garrotar
• garrotear

Etymology 2

Verb

garrote

1. inflection of garrotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “garrote”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French garrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrote/ [ɡaˈro.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: ga‧rro‧te

Noun

garrote m (plural garrotes)

1. garrote (something, especially a cord or wire, used for strangulation)
2. club, cudgel
3. torniquet

   Synonym: torniquete

4. (drawing) line break, gap
5. (construction) bulge

Derived terms

• agarrotar
• garrotazo
• garrotero
• limosnero y con garrote

 

Descendants

• → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

Further reading

• “garrote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014