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English

Etymology

From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlut?. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?t, IPA^(key): /l?t/
• (General American) enPR: lät, IPA^(key): /l?t/
• (Boston, Western Pennsylvania) IPA^(key): /l?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

lot (plural lots)

1. A large quantity or number; a great deal.

   Synonyms: load, mass, pile
2. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

   Synonyms: batch, collection, group, set

3. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
4. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.

   Synonyms: crowd, gang, group

5. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

   Synonyms: allotment, parcel, plot
6. That which happens without human design or forethought.

   Synonyms: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune
7. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

   • The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
8. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
   • 1977, C-3PO in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

     We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

9. A prize in a lottery.

   Synonym: prize

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10. Allotment; lottery.
    • 1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)

      Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.

11. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.

12. (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lot

Derived terms

• a lot

Translations

Verb

lot (third-person singular simple present lots, present participle lotting, simple past and past participle lotted)

1. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
2. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

Anagrams

• LTO, OTL, tol, tol'

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *l?(i)ta, and adjective in *-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to pour”).

Noun

lot m (indefinite plural lot, definite singular loti, definite plural lotët)

1. tear (from the eye)

   Gjak, djersë dhe lot — Blood, sweat and tears

Declension

Derived terms

• losh
• loc
• loçkë
• loke

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lot. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t/
• Hyphenation: lot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

lot n (plural loten, diminutive lootje n)

1. destiny, fate, lot
2. lottery ticket
3. (archaic) lot, allotment (that which has been apportioned to a party)

Related terms

• loten

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: lot

Anagrams

• tol

French

Etymology

From Middle French lot, from Old French loz, los, from Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?. Cognate with English lot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Noun

lot m (plural lots)

1. share (of inheritance)
2. plot (of land)
3. batch (of goods for sale)
4. lot (at auction)
5. prize (in lottery)
6. lot, fate
7. (slang) babe

Derived terms

• gros lot
• sortir du lot

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?t]
• Hyphenation: lot

Noun

lot (first-person possessive lotku, second-person possessive lotmu, third-person possessive lotnya)

1. lot,
   1. (manufacturing) a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
   2. (colloquial) lottery

      Synonyms: lotre, undian

   3. (finance) allotment

Further reading

• “lot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norman

Etymology

From Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?.

Noun

lot m (plural lots)

1. (Guernsey) lot (at auction)

Northern Kurdish

Noun

lot ?

1. jump

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lot

1. simple past of la (Etymology 1)
2. simple past of late

Polish

Etymology

Compare Czech let and Russian ????? (poljót).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t/

Noun

lot m inan

1. flight

Declension

Synonyms

• latanie, fruwanie

Related terms

• (adjectives) lotniczy, lotny, nielotny
• (adverbs) lotniczo, lotnie
• (nouns) lotka, lotnictwo, lotniczka, lotnik, lotnisko, lotniskowiec, nalot, odlot, przylot, ulotka, wylot, latawiec, polatucha, podlotek, przelot
• (verbs) lata?, lecie?, odlatywa?, odlecie?, podlatywa?, podlecie?, polata?, polecie?, przylatywa?, przylecie?, ulatywa?, ulecie?, wylata?, wylecie?, wzlatywa?, zlatywa?, zlecie?

Further reading

• lot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

lot m (gen lota, pl lotan)

1. sore, wound
2. sting

Tatar

Noun

lot

1. A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 m?sqal = 12.797 g (archaic) [2]

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lot n (plural lotten, diminutive lotsje)

1. lottery ticket
2. fate, destiny

Further reading

• “lot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• noes

Noun

nos

1. plural of no

Anagrams

• -son, ONS, SON, Son, ons, son

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin nos. Akin to Spanish nos and French nous.

Pronoun

nos

1. us (first-person plural direct pronoun)
2. (to) us (first-person plural indirect pronoun)

Synonyms

• mos

Asturian

Alternative forms

• mos (pronoun)
• ños (pronoun)

Etymology 1

From Latin n?s (“we; us”).

Pronoun

nos

1. us (dative and accusative of nosotros/nós)

Etymology 2

From a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + masculine plural article los (“the”).

Contraction

nos m pl (masculine sg nel, feminine sg na, neuter sg no, feminine plural nes)

1. in the

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?s (“we; us”), from Proto-Italic *n?s.

Pronoun

nos (enclitic, contracted 'ns, proclitic ens)

1. us (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Related terms

• nosaltres

Cornish

Etymology 1

Uncertain; either inherited from Proto-Celtic *noxs or borrowed from Latin nox. In either case, cognate with Breton noz, Welsh nos and Gaulish nox, all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nos f (plural nosow)

1. night

Etymology 2

From Latin nota. Cognate with Welsh nod, Irish nod, nóta and English note. Doublet of noten.

Noun

nos m (plural nosow)

1. mark
2. token

References

• nos in the Gerlyver Kernewek Cornish Dictionary

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nos]
• Hyphenation: nos
• Rhymes: -os

Etymology 1

From Old Czech nos, from Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos m inan

1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Synonyms

• fr?ák, ?enich, ra?afák

Derived terms

• nosá?
• nosní

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

nos

1. second-person singular imperative of nosit

Further reading

• nos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• nos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese nos, from Latin n?s (“we; us”).

Pronoun

nos

1. we (first person plural nominative personal pronoun; the speakers/writers)
2. us (first person plural objective personal pronoun)

French

Etymology

From Old French noz, probably from Latin nostros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no/
• Rhymes: -o

Determiner

nos pl

1. plural of notre

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• son

Galician

Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + masculine plural article os (“the”)

Contraction

nos m pl (masculine sg no, feminine sg na, feminine plural nas)

1. in the

Etymology 2

From a mutation of os.

Pronoun

nos m (accusative)

1. Alternative form of os (“them”, masculine plural)

Usage notes

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• los
• os
• nós

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

nos

1. inflection of nós:
   1. accusative/dative
   2. reflexive

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese nós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu anos.

Pronoun

nos

1. we, first person plural.

Hungarian

Etymology

no (interjection) +? s (“and”, conjunction)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?no?]
• Hyphenation: nos
• Rhymes: -o?

Interjection

nos

1. well

References

Further reading

• nos in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Interlingua

Pronoun

nos

1. we
2. us

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos m

1. (anatomy) nose

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *n?s, from Proto-Indo-European *n?smé.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /no?s/, [no?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nos/, [n?s]

Pronoun

n?s

1. nominative/accusative plural of ego: we, us

Usage notes

When used in the plural genitive, nostr? is used when it is the object of an action, especially when used with a gerund or gerundive. When used in such a construction, the gerund or gerundive takes on the masculine genitive singular. Nostrum is used as a partitive genitive, used in constructions such as (one of us).

Derived terms

• n?b?scum

Descendants

See also

1st and 2nd person personal pronouns declension together with the possessive and reflexive pronouns.
is, ea, id (“he, she, it”) is not included here.

References

• nos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lombard

Alternative forms

• nus (Modern orthography)

Etymology

From Latin nucem, accusative singular of nux (“nut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.

Pronunciation

• (Milan) IPA^(key): /nu?s/

Noun

nos f (invariable) (Classical Milanese orthography)

1. walnut (fruit and tree)
2. (botany) nut

References

• Francesco Cherubini, Vocabolario milanese-italiano, Volume 3, 1843, p. 179

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?s/

Noun

nos m (diminutive nosk)

1. nose

Declension

Middle English

Noun

nos (plural nosses)

1. Alternative form of nose

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse n?s, from Proto-Germanic *nas?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos f or m (definite singular nosa or nosen, indefinite plural noser, definite plural nosene)

1. (dialectal) nose
2. (dialectal) steep protruding point on a mountain

Synonyms

• (nose): nese

References

• “nos” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “nos” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse n?s, from Proto-Germanic *nas?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos f (definite singular nosa, indefinite plural naser, definite plural nasene)

1. nose
2. steep protruding point on a mountain

Synonyms

• (nose): nase

References

• “nos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• sno, son

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nus/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin n?s.

Pronoun

nos

1. to us (first-person plural indirect object pronoun)
2. ourselves (first-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan nos, nous, nou, from Latin n?dus. Compare Catalan nus, French nœud, Italian nodo.

Noun

nos m (plural noses)

1. knot

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos/

Noun

nos m

1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: nos

Further reading

• “nos”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old French

Alternative forms

• nous (first-person plural subject pronoun)
• nus (first-person plural subject pronoun)

Etymology

From Latin n?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nus/

Pronoun

nos

1. we (first-person plural subject pronoun)
2. our (masculine and feminine plural possessive pronoun)
3. to us (first-person plural indirect object pronoun)
4. ourselves (first-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Descendants

• Middle French: nous
  • French: nous

Old Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin n?s, in the nominative case, and accusative n?s stressed.

Pronoun

nos

1. nominative of nos: we
2. prepositional of nos: us

Descendants

• Spanish: nos (archaic or dialectal)
• Spanish: nosotros

Etymology 2

From Latin n?s, in the accusative case unstressed, and dative n?b?s.

Pronoun

nos

1. accusative of nos: us
2. dative of nos: to us, for us

Descendants

• Spanish: nos

Etymology 3

Contraction of no (“not”) and se (“him/her/itself, themselves”).

Contraction

nos

1. not ... (to oneself)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese nós and Kabuverdianu anos.

Pronoun

nos

1. we, first person plural.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?s/

Noun

nos m inan (diminutive nosek, augmentative nochal or nosisko)

1. nose

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) nosowy
• (nouns) nochal, nosacz, nosal

Further reading

• nos in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• nos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /nus/
• Hyphenation: nos

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese nos, from Latin n?s (“we; us”), from Proto-Italic *n?s.

Pronoun

nos

1. us; objective case of nós

2. Obsolete spelling of nós

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese nos, clipping of enos, from en (“in”) + os (“the”).

Contraction

nos

1. Contraction of em os (“in the”).
   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:

     [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.

     [...] the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

nos

2. Alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin n?s, from Proto-Italic *n?s, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?s/

Pronoun

nos (possessive nostru)

1. we

   Synonym: nois, nosatros

2. us

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nô?s/

Noun

n?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nos]

Noun

nos m

1. nose

Further reading

• nos in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nó?s/

Noun

n??s m inan

1. (anatomy) nose

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish nos, from accusative Latin n?s and dative Latin n?b?s, from Proto-Italic *n?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos/, [nos]

Pronoun

nos (object pronoun)

1. dative of nosotros: to us, for us
2. accusative of nosotros: us
3. (reflexive) reflexive of nosotros: ourselves; each other
4. (archaic, formal) first person; I (singular, cf. vos)

Derived terms

References

• nos

See also

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse n?s, from Proto-Germanic *nas?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s-.

Noun

nos c

1. a nose of an animal

Declension

Related terms

• näsa (human nose)
• nosa
• sötnos

Anagrams

• -son, ons, sno, son

Volapük

Pronoun

nos

1. nothing

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French nos, from Latin nos.

Pronoun

nos

1. we

Related terms

• nozôtes

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nék?ts.

Cognates include Breton noz, Cornish nos and Gaulish nox

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?s/

Noun

nos f (plural nosweithiau, or rarely nosau, count form noson)

1. night

Derived terms

Related terms

Western Apache

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nòs]

Noun

nos

1. manzanita plant

Usage notes

• occurs only in Dilzhe’eh (Tonto) dialect

See also

• dinos "manzanita"