different between cot vs mattress

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

Etymology

From Middle English materas, from Old French, from Arabic ???????? (ma?ra?, “place where something is thrown”), from ??????? (?ara?a, “to throw”). Compare divan, from Persian via Turkish (both of Middle Eastern origin, due to the local custom of lying on padding on floor being foreign to Europeans).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæt??s/

Noun

mattress (plural mattresses)

1. A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.
2. A form of retaining wall used to support foundations or an embankment

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bottom sheet
• futon

Verb

mattress (third-person singular simple present mattresses, present participle mattressing, simple past and past participle mattressed)

1. (transitive) To cover with a thick layer, like a mattress; to blanket.
   • 1997, Andrew R. M. Patterson, A planet through a field of stars (page 123)

     A comfortable litter of pine needles had mattressed the ground and spreading branches had been a canopy overhead.

Anagrams

• smart set, smartest, smatters