cuotear

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Spanish cuota

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Latin -izāre

Spanish -ear

Spanish cuotear

From cuota + -ear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwoteˈaɾ/ [kwo.t̪eˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cuo‧te‧ar

Verb

cuotear (first-person singular present cuoteo, first-person singular preterite cuoteé, past participle cuoteado)

1. (transitive, Chile) to share out with a quota

   Synonym: prorratear

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cuotear (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cuotear
gerund			cuoteando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cuoteado		cuoteada
		plural		cuoteados		cuoteadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cuoteo	cuoteastú cuoteásvos	cuotea	cuoteamos	cuoteáis	cuotean
	imperfect	cuoteaba	cuoteabas	cuoteaba	cuoteábamos	cuoteabais	cuoteaban
	preterite	cuoteé	cuoteaste	cuoteó	cuoteamos	cuoteasteis	cuotearon
	future	cuotearé	cuotearás	cuoteará	cuotearemos	cuotearéis	cuotearán
	conditional	cuotearía	cuotearías	cuotearía	cuotearíamos	cuotearíais	cuotearían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cuotee	cuoteestú cuoteésvos2	cuotee	cuoteemos	cuoteéis	cuoteen
	imperfect (ra)	cuoteara	cuotearas	cuoteara	cuoteáramos	cuotearais	cuotearan
	imperfect (se)	cuotease	cuoteases	cuotease	cuoteásemos	cuoteaseis	cuoteasen
	future1	cuoteare	cuoteares	cuoteare	cuoteáremos	cuoteareis	cuotearen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cuoteatú cuoteávos	cuotee	cuoteemos	cuotead	cuoteen
	negative		no cuotees	no cuotee	no cuoteemos	no cuoteéis	no cuoteen

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “cuotear”, 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