different between coat vs paletot

English

Alternative forms

• cote (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kutt? (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).

Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Ancient Greek ?????? (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ko?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)

1. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp
3. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp

4. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
5. (obsolete) A petticoat.

   • a child in coats

6. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn

     Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint

     She was sought by spirits of richest coat.

7. A coat of arms.^Wp
8. A coat card.
   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: koto

Translations

Verb

coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)

1. (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.
2. (transitive) To cover like a coat.
3. (transitive, archaic) To clothe.

Translations

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco

English

Etymology

From French paletot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pal?t??/

Noun

paletot (plural paletots)

1. (historical) A loose outer jacket, cloak, coat, overcoat, greatcoat, three-quarter coat.
2. A women’s fitted jacket.
   • 1870, The Ladies' Treasury and Treasury of Literature (page 93)

     For morning fetes is worn with this dress a small white muslin paletot, without sleeves, split up the back, trimmed with two gauffred frills, edged with Valenciennes, and a narrow puffing, lined with satin ribbon.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 833:

     Kit caught sight of Dally in the Principessa’s borrowed gown and a dark silk paletot, her incendiary hair done up in an ostrich-plume aigrette dyed indigo

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle English paltok; first element related to Latin pallium (“cloak”), second element of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal.to/

Noun

paletot m (plural paletots)

1. jacket

Descendants

• ? Catalan: paltó
• ? English: paletot
• ? Polish: palto
• ? Spanish: paltó

Further reading

• “paletot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pelotât

References

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN