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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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: l?ts, IPA^(key): /l?ts/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?ts, IPA^(key): /l?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

lots

1. plural of lot

   The men cast lots.

   They purchased all of the adjacent lots.

Noun

lots

1. (colloquial) A lot; a great deal; tons; loads.

   Lots of the ways you can help are really easy.

   Don't worry, my family has lots of money.

   She made lots of new friends.

Translations

Adverb

lots (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) A great deal; very much.

   I feel lots better about it now that we've talked.

   I care lots about the humane treatment of animals.

Verb

lots

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lot

Anagrams

• LTOs, OSLT, OTLs, STOL, lost, slot, tols

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Noun

lots m

1. plural of lot

Swedish

Noun

lots c

1. a pilot (at sea)

Declension

Related terms

References

• lots in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• stol