klot

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German glatt (“smooth”).

Alternative forms

• klȁt
• glȁt

Adjective

klȍt (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т) (Vojvodina)

1. basic, undecorated
2. unseasoned, ungarnished
3. (knitting) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Coordinate terms

• (knitting): fr̀kēt

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cloth.

Alternative forms

• klòta

Noun

klȍt m (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т)

1. broadcloth

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish klōt, from Middle Low German klôt, from Proto-Germanic *klautaz. Cognate of German Kloß, English cleat, Dutch kloot. Compare with origin for klut.

Pronunciation

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Noun

klot n

1. a solid (large) ball, often harder than a boll
2. (mathematics) ball; the set of points in a metric space of distance less than (or equal to) a given number.
3. (bookbinding) buckram (stiff cloth used in book covers)

Declension

Declension of klot
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	klot	klotet	klot	kloten
Genitive	klots	klotets	klots	klotens

Derived terms

• bowlingklot (“bowling ball”)
• jordklot (“globe; [a] planet Earth”)
• klotblixt (“ball lightning”)
• varselklot (“overhead wire marker”)

See also

• boll
• kula
• sfär

References

• klot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• klot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• klot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• klot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• klot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L

Anagrams

• tolk

Volapük

Noun

klot (nominative plural klots)

1. a dress (in general)
2. a garment
3. clothing, clothes

Declension

declension of klot

	singular	plural
nominative	klot	klots
genitive	klota	klotas
dative	klote	klotes
accusative	kloti	klotis
vocative 1	o klot!	o klots!
predicative 2	klotu	klotus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

See also

• kloted