rot
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɑt/
Audio (US) (file) - (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɹɔt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- Homophone: wrought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
VerbEdit
rot (third-person singular simple present rots, present participle rotting, simple past and past participle rotted)
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
- Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
- The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
- Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
- to rot vegetable fiber
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
- to rot in prison
- to rot in Hell
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs:
- Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (dated, slang) To talk nonsense.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:
- Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
(intransitive) to suffer decomposition
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(transitive) to make putrid
(transitive) to cause to deteriorate in any way, as in morals
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NounEdit
rot (countable and uncountable, plural rots)
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- Decaying matter.
- 2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115:
- When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.
- Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
- 1658–1663, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
SynonymsEdit
- (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense
TranslationsEdit
verbal nonsense — See also translations at nonsense
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch rot, dialectal form of rat.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
rot (plural rotte)
See alsoEdit
Alemannic GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Cognate with German rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.
AdjectiveEdit
rot
ReferencesEdit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ot
NounEdit
rot m (plural rots)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “rot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
See rotten
AdjectiveEdit
rot (comparative rotter, superlative rotst)
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of rot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | rot | |||
| inflected | rotte | |||
| comparative | rotter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | rot | rotter | het rotst het rotste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | rotte | rottere | rotste |
| n. sing. | rot | rotter | rotste | |
| plural | rotte | rottere | rotste | |
| definite | rotte | rottere | rotste | |
| partitive | rots | rotters | — | |
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
rot n (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch rotte.
NounEdit
rot f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Middle Dutch rote.
NounEdit
rot n or f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rot m (plural rots)
- (colloquial) belch, burp
- Synonym: renvoi
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “rot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rot (feminine rote)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- roth (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.
Compare Low German root, rod, rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rot (strong nominative masculine singular roter, comparative röter or roter, superlative am rötesten or am rotesten)
- red (colour)
- (politics, relational) red (pertaining to Marxism in the widest sense); social democratic; socialist; communist
- (politics, Germany, in particular, relational) of the social democratic SPD or the more rigidly socialist Linke
- (possibly mildly offensive) red-haired
- (historical, possibly offensive) redskin; Native American; Indian
DeclensionEdit
Positive forms of rot
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| predicative | er ist rot | sie ist rot | es ist rot | sie sind rot | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | roter | rote | rotes | rote |
| genitive | roten | roter | roten | roter | |
| dative | rotem | roter | rotem | roten | |
| accusative | roten | rote | rotes | rote | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der rote | die rote | das rote | die roten |
| genitive | des roten | der roten | des roten | der roten | |
| dative | dem roten | der roten | dem roten | den roten | |
| accusative | den roten | die rote | das rote | die roten | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein roter | eine rote | ein rotes | (keine) roten |
| genitive | eines roten | einer roten | eines roten | (keiner) roten | |
| dative | einem roten | einer roten | einem roten | (keinen) roten | |
| accusative | einen roten | eine rote | ein rotes | (keine) roten | |
Comparative forms of rot
Superlative forms of rot
SynonymsEdit
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Further readingEdit
German Low GermanEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rot
- Alternative spelling of root
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
rot n (genitive singular rots, no plural)
DeclensionEdit
declension of rot
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See rotna
NounEdit
rot n (genitive singular rots, nominative plural rot)
DeclensionEdit
declension of rot
Related termsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
rot
- Alternative form of rote (“root”)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
rot
- Alternative form of roten (“to rot”)
Etymology 3Edit
A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rot (uncountable)
- Rotting or decomposition; the situation where something rots.
- Any disease which causes decaying and decomposition in humans.
- A disease that afflicts sheep; footrot, the rot.
DescendantsEdit
- English: rot
ReferencesEdit
- “rō̆t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-24.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
NounEdit
rot m or f (definite singular rota or roten, indefinite plural røtter, definite plural røttene)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
rot
- imperative of rote
ReferencesEdit
- “rot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Akin to English root.
NounEdit
rot f (definite singular rota, indefinite plural røter, definite plural røtene)
InflectionEdit
Historical inflection of rot
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren as of 1910. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
rot n (definite singular rotet, uncountable)
- a mess, untidiness, chaos
- Det er for mykje rot på loftet. Me må rydda.
- The attic is a mess. We have to tidy it up.
- Når me prøver å samarbeida med dei, blir det berre rot.
- When we try working with them, it just turns into chaos.
- Det er for mykje rot på loftet. Me må rydda.
ReferencesEdit
- “rot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
Old DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *raud.
AdjectiveEdit
rōt
InflectionEdit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
- Middle Dutch: rôot
Further readingEdit
- “rōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.
AdjectiveEdit
rōt
DescendantsEdit
Old SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts.
NounEdit
rōt f
DeclensionEdit
Declension of rōt (consonant stem)
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | rōt | rōtin | rø̄ter | rø̄trina(r), -rena(r) |
| accusative | rōt | rōtina, -ena | rø̄ter | rø̄trina(r), -rena(r) |
| dative | rōt | rōtinni, -inne | rōtum, -om | rōtumin, -omen |
| genitive | rōta(r) | rōtinna(r) | rōta | rōtanna |
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: rot
Pennsylvania GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German and Old High German rōt, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Compare German rot, Dutch rood, English red.
AdjectiveEdit
rot
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rot f
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Swedish rōt, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
rot c
- root; the part of a plant under the surface.
- the part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
- source; an underlying cause
- Kärleken till pengar är roten till allt ont.
- The love of money is the root of all evil.
- (mathematics) of a number n, a positive number which, when raised to a specified power, yields n; the square root is understood if no power is specified
- Kubikroten ur 27 är 3.
- The cube root of 27 is 3.
- Multiplicera med roten ur 2.
- Multiply by root 2.
- (mathematics) a zero (of a function).
- (mathematics) a designated node in a tree.
- (mathematics) curl; a measure on how fast a vector field rotates: it can be described as the cross product of del and a given vectorial field
- (computing) root directory
- (linguistics) a word from which another word is derived.
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of rot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | rot | roten | rötter | rötterna |
| Genitive | rots | rotens | rötters | rötternas |
SynonymsEdit
- källa (3)
- nollställe (5)
Derived termsEdit
- rotvälta (1)
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- rot in Svensk ordbok.
AnagramsEdit
Tok PisinEdit
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EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
rot
- road, street
- '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:
- Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.
- Many little roads exist on this island.
- Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.
- '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:
ReferencesEdit
Tok Pisin texts: from the beginning to the present / edited by Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton, Suzanne Romaine. / John Benjamins Publishing Company / Copyright 2003 / →ISBN / page 106
VilamovianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Italian rata (“installment”).
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
rōt f (plural rota)
- installment (a kind of payment)