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cot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cot"

Translingual edit

Symbol edit

cot

  1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes edit

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

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English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Noun edit

 
Cots for stranded passengers at O'Hare International Airport

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 terms edit
Translations edit
folding bed — see camp bed
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Etymology 2 edit

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.

Noun edit

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”, in 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
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Etymology 3 edit

From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).[1]

Noun edit

cot (plural cots)

  1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4 edit

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.

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Noun edit

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 5 edit

Contraction of cot-quean.

Noun edit

cot (plural cots)

  1. (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 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.

References edit

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 coite”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Anagrams edit

Aromanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun edit

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

  1. elbow

Noun edit

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

  1. an old measure, unit of length

Catalan edit

Etymology 1 edit

From acotar.

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Adjective edit

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 2 edit

From cota (“coat”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. (historical) long robe or overcoat with sleeves, worn by men and women

Etymology 3 edit

Borrowed from Latin quotus (“how much”).

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Noun edit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. (historical, Catalan law) monetary penalty imposed by some Andorran councils

Etymology 4 edit

Inherited from Latin cōs.

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Noun edit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. (obsolete) whetstone
    Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

Further reading edit

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

French edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. Alternative spelling of côt

Northern Kurdish edit

Etymology edit

Compare Persian جفت (joft).

Noun edit

cot ?

  1. pair

Old English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

  1. cottage

Declension edit

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

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • English: cot

References edit

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

Old French edit

Noun edit

cot oblique singular, f (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular cot, nominative plural coz or cotz)

  1. Alternative form of cotte

Picard edit

Etymology edit

From Latin cattus.

Noun edit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. cat

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited 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.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cot n (plural coate)

  1. elbow

Declension edit

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

Noun edit

cot n (plural coturi)

  1. corner
  2. a bend of a river

Declension edit

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

Noun edit

cot m (plural coți)

  1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Declension edit

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 terms edit

Romansch edit

Noun edit

cot m (plural cots)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

Tyap edit

Alternative forms edit

  • cod, chot, chod

Etymology edit

From English church.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cot (plural ncot)

  1. church

Welsh edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From English coat.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cot f (plural cotiau)

  1. (South Wales) coat

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

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.

References edit

  • 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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