Wiktionary

cot

See also: cót, côt, cöt, cốt, çot, and cǫt

TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

cot

  1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notesEdit

The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

SynonymsEdit

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

NounEdit

cot (plural cots)

  1. (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
    Synonym: camp bed
  2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
    Synonym: crib
  3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
folding bed — see camp bed
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

NounEdit

cot (plural cots)

  1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
    • 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […], →OCLC:
      the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
    • 1790, Jane Austen, ‘Love and Freindship’, Juvenilia:
      One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
    • 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
      Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
  2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
    Synonym: cote
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Irish cot, coit (“small boat”), from Proto-Celtic *quontio, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s (“path, road”), related to Gaulish and Latin ponto. Compare the first element of catboat, which could be a borrowing.[1]

NounEdit

cot (plural cots)

  1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4Edit

From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

cot (plural cots)

  1. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
    a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)
    a cot for a sore finger

Etymology 5Edit

Contraction of cot-quean.

NounEdit

cot (plural cots)

  1. (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 347:
      You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “coit”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 96

AnagramsEdit

AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

NounEdit

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

  1. elbow

NounEdit

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

  1. an old measure, unit of length

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From acotar.

AdjectiveEdit

cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)

  1. bowed, towards the ground
    • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:
      Reia i reia amb el cap cot, contenint-se a mitges.
      He laughed and laughed with his head down, half restraining himself.

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin cōs.

NounEdit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. whetstone
    Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

Further readingEdit

  • “cot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Northern KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare Persian جفت‎ (joft).

NounEdit

cot ?

  1. pair

Old EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.[1]

However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (kata, “chamber”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

  1. cottage

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cot (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative cot cotu
accusative cot cotu
genitive cotes cota
dative cote cotum

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • English: cot

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “kuta”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 313-14

PicardEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin cattus.

NounEdit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. cat

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin cubitum, probably through a later Vulgar Latin contracted form *cubtu, perhaps becoming *cout in earlier Romanian. Compare Aromanian cot, Spanish codo; cf. also Albanian kut. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cot n (plural coate)

  1. elbow

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cot cotul (niște) coate coatele
genitive/dative (unui) cot cotului (unor) coate coatelor
vocative cotule coatelor

NounEdit

cot n (plural coturi)

  1. corner

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cot cotul (niște) coturi coturile
genitive/dative (unui) cot cotului (unor) coturi coturilor
vocative cotule coturilor

NounEdit

cot m (plural coți)

  1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cot
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) cot cotul (niște) coți coții
genitive/dative (unui) cot cotului (unor) coți coților
vocative cotule coților

Derived termsEdit

RomanschEdit

NounEdit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

TyapEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • cod, chot, chod

EtymologyEdit

From English church.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cot (plural ncot)

  1. church

WelshEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English coat.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cot f (plural cotiau)

  1. (South Wales) coat

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cot got nghot chot
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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