different between loth vs loti

English

Etymology 1

See loath.

Adjective

loth (comparative lother, superlative lothest)

1. (Britain) Alternative form of loath
   • 1614, Ben Jonson, Bartholmew Fayre, Induction:

     If there bee never a Servant-monster i' the Fayre, who can helpe it, he sayes ; nor a nest of Antiques ? ? Hee is loth to make Nature afraid in his Playes, like those that beget Tales, Tempests, and such like Drolleries, […]

Usage notes

• The spelling loath is about four times as common as loth in Britain, and about fifty times as common in the United States. Loth had more currency in the US in the 19th century, appearing in Webster’s 1828 dictionary, but not the 1913 edition.
• The word should not be confused with the related verb loathe.

Derived terms

• lothly
• lothness

Etymology 2

From German Loth (obsolete), Lot, later also from Dutch lood, both specific usages of the word for ‘lead’. Doublet of lead.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??t/

Noun

loth (plural loths)

1. (now historical) A measure of weight formerly used in Germany, the Netherlands and some other parts of Europe, equivalent to half of the local ounce. [from 17th c.]
   • 1999, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, translating Paracelsus, Opus Paramirum, in Essential Readings, North Atlantic Books 1999, p. 100:

     It is not a matter of body but of virtues, which is why the fifth essence was invented, of which one loth is superior to the twenty pounds of the body from which it was extracted.

References

• “loth”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• HTOL, Holt, holt

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English l?þ (“hateful”)

Adjective

loth

1. hateful, evil
2. reluctant

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• lath

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *lut?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?/

Noun

loth f (genitive loithe, nominative plural latha)

1. mud
2. swamp, marsh

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “loth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Noun

loth f (genitive singular lotha, plural lothan)

1. foal
2. filly

English

Etymology 1

From the Latin l?t?, the nominative plural form of l?tus (“Egyptian lotus flower”, “date-plum”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l??t?, IPA^(key): /?l??ta?/

Noun

loti

1. plural of lotus

Etymology 2

From the Sotho loti, singular derivation of maloti, mulati (“mountains”); compare Maloti.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l??ti, lo?o?ti, IPA^(key): /?l??ti/, /?lu?ti/

Noun

loti (plural maloti or lotis)

1. The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender.
2. A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti.

Meronyms

• sente

References

• “?loti, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [additions series, 1997]

Further reading

• Lesotho loti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -itol, TOIL, toil

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Verb

loti (present lotas, past lotis, future lotos, conditional lotus, volitive lotu)

1. (intransitive) to draw lots

Conjugation

Derived terms

• loto (“a lot”)
• lotumi (“to allot”)

See also

• a?kcio (“auction”)
• loterio (“lottery”)

French

Verb

loti

1. past participle of lotir

Italian

Noun

loti m

1. plural of loto

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?lo?.ti?/, [???o?t?i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?lo.ti/, [?l??t?i]

Etymology 1

See l?tus (“Nymphaea caerulea”, “Diospyros lotus”, “Ziziphus lotus”, second-declension masculine noun).

Noun

l?t? m

1. nominative plural of l?tus
2. genitive singular of l?tus
3. vocative plural of l?tus

Descendants

• English: loti

Etymology 2

See l?tium (“urine”, second-declension neuter noun).

Noun

l?t? n

1. genitive singular of l?tium

Lithuanian

Etymology

• Compare Polish ?aja? (“to scold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?t??/

Verb

lóti (third-person present tense lója, third-person past tense lójo)

1. (intransitive) to bark

Conjugation

Synonyms

• skalyti

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• lojìmas m

See also

• kaukti, riaumoti, staugti, st?gauti, urgzti

References

Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec

Etymology

Borrowd from Spanish zopilote, from a Nahuan language.

Noun

loti

1. turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

Derived terms

References

• Aguilar Feria, Martimiana; García Rojas, Vicente; Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Sa?an Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)?^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 246

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

loti

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of lyta and lyte