sot
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
sot
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).[1][2]
Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /sɒt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- Homophone: sought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Audio (UK) (file)
NounEdit
sot (plural sots)
- (archaic) stupid person; fool
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Remember
First to possess his books; for without them
He's but a sot, as I am […]
- c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated
- In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
And reverence some deified Baboon.
- In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
- drunkard
- 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
- Every sign
That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
- Every sign
- April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235
- Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.
- 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse
SynonymsEdit
- (stupid person): See also Thesaurus:idiot (intelligence) or Thesaurus:fool (wisdom)
- (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
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TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)
- To drink until one becomes drunk
- To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
- I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
AnagramsEdit
AlbanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from a Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱyeh₂ dh₂itéy dative-locative compound, literally "this day". Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See also ditë, which is related to the second component.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
sot
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CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root *(t)sott-.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sot m (plural sots)
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Further readingEdit
- “sot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “sot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DalmatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetian suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).
AdjectiveEdit
sot
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz, cognate with Norwegian sott, Swedish sot (archaic), German Sucht. Derived from the verb *seukaną.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)
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Further readingEdit
- “sot” in Den Danske Ordbog
FaliscanEdit
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VerbEdit
sōt
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern zut! (“damn it!”). This Latin word was borrowed into Germanic languages such as Dutch zot, Old English sott (modern English sot).[1][2]
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
sot (feminine sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further readingEdit
- “sot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetian sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.
PrepositionEdit
sot
- under, beneath, underneath
- below, south of
AdverbEdit
sot
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LadinEdit
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sot
LuxembourgishEdit
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sot
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English sot, sott, from Medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot (“idiotic”), of obscure origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern French zut! (“damn it!”).[1][2]
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)
- One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
- A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
- (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.
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DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “sot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.
AdjectiveEdit
sot (plural and weak singular sotte)
ReferencesEdit
- “sot, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ Metzler, I. (2015). Fools and Idiots? Intellectual Disability in the Middle Ages. United States: Manchester University Press.
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “zot”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English sōt.
NounEdit
sot
- Alternative form of soot (“soot”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.
NounEdit
sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.
NounEdit
sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)
ReferencesEdit
- “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sōt n
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Old SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sōt f
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | sōt | sōttin | sōtti(r), -e(r) | sōttina(r), -ena(r) |
accusative | sōt | sōttina, -ena | sōtti(r), -e(r) | sōttina(r), -ena(r) |
dative | sōt | sōttinni, -inne | sōttum, -om | sōttumin, -omen |
genitive | sōtta(r) | sōttinna(r) | sōtta | sōttanna |
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: sot
ReferencesEdit
- sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T
ScotsEdit
AdverbEdit
sot
- so (to contradict a negative clause)
- 1897, J. Mackinnon, Braefoot Sketches:
- “I wisna a grain feart.” “Ye wis sot. Ye ran like the rest o's.”
- “I wasn't scared at all.” “You was so. You ran like the rest of us.”
ReferencesEdit
- “sot” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.
NounEdit
sot n
DeclensionEdit
Declension of sot | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | sot | sotet | — | — |
Genitive | sots | sotets | — | — |
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Etymology 2Edit
From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.
NounEdit
sot c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of sot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sot | soten | soter | soterna |
Genitive | sots | sotens | soters | soternas |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 1. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- 2. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
AnagramsEdit
VolapükEdit
NounEdit
sot (nominative plural sots)
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Zoogocho ZapotecEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).
NounEdit
sot
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273