pelota
noun /pəˈlɒtə/, /pəˈləʊtə/
/pəˈləʊtə/
- [uncountable] a game from Spain in which players hit a ball against a wall using a kind of basket attached to their handTopics Games and toysc2
- [countable] the ball used in the game of pelota
Word OriginSpanish, literally ‘ball’, augmentative of pella, from Latin pila ‘ball’.