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Translingual

Symbol

cot

1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• cotan
• cotg
• ctg
• ctn (obsolete)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): /k?t/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [k???(t)]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [k??t], [k???]
  • (Boston) IPA^(key): [k???t?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [k??t?]
  • (Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): [k?at?]
• Homophones: caught (accents with cot–caught merger), court (non-rhotic accents with cot–caught merger and horse–hoarse merger)
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (kh??), from Sauraseni Prakrit ???????????????????? (kha???), from Sanskrit ????? (kha?v?, “bedstead”).

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

   Synonym: camp bed

2. (Britain, 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

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kut?, *kut? (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German k?z (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan ????????????????? (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   • 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

Derived terms

Related terms

• coscet
• cosset
• cote
• cotter

Translations

Etymology 3

From Irish cot, coit (“small boat”), from Proto-Celtic *quontio, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh?s (“path, road”), related to Gaulish and Latin ponto. Compare the first element of catboat, which could be a borrowing.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4

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.

Alternative forms

• cote (dialectal)

Noun

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

References

Anagrams

• CTO, OCT, OTC, Oct, Oct., TCO, TOC, oct, oct-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cotu

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

1. elbow

Noun

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

1. an old measure, unit of length

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)

1. bowed, towards the ground

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian ???? (joft).

Noun

cot ?

1. pair

Old English

Alternative forms

• cott

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kut?, *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.

However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German k?z (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan ????????????????? (kata, “chamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot/

Noun

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

1. cottage

Declension

Derived terms

• cote
• cotsæta

Descendants

• English: cot

References

Picard

Etymology

From Latin cattus.

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. cat

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Spanish codo. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

Noun

cot n (plural coate)

1. elbow

Noun

cot n (plural coturi)

1. corner

Noun

cot m (plural co?i)

1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Derived terms

• coti
• cot?ri

Romansch

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (North Wales) côt

Etymology

From English coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/

Noun

cot f (plural cotiau)

1. (South Wales) coat

Derived terms

• cot law

Mutation

References

• 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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??t/

Etymology 1

See quoit.

Noun

coit (plural coits)

1. Obsolete form of quoit.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)

Verb

coit (third-person singular simple present coits, present participle coiting, simple past and past participle coited)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw.

   to coit a stone

Etymology 2

Back-formation from coitus.

Noun

coit

1. Synonym of coition

Verb

coit (third-person singular simple present coits, present participle coiting, simple past and past participle coited)

1. (rare) to copulate; to mate

Synonyms

• coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Anagrams

• -otic, Tico, Toci, otic

Latin

Verb

coit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of coe?

Romanian

Etymology

From French coït

Noun

coit n (plural coituri)

1. sexual intercourse

Declension