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English

Noun

lotos (plural lotoses)

1. (botany) Dated form of lotus.
   • 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow

     A flock of pigeons circled about the tower of the Memorial Church; sometimes alighting on the purple tiled roof, sometimes wheeling downward to the lotos fountain in front of the marble arch.

Anagrams

• loots, sloot, sotol, stool, tools, tosol

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lotos]

Noun

lotos m

1. lotus

Further reading

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• l?tus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

l?tos f or m (genitive l?t?); second declension

1. The Egyptian lotus flower, Nymphaea caerulea
2. The date-plum, Diospyros lotus
3. The mythical lotus tree, possibly Ziziphus lotus

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

For the sense mythical lotus tree, Gaius Plinius Secundus used the nominative plural l?toe in his Naturalis Historia.

References

• lotos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lotos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.t?s/

Noun

lotos m inan

1. lotus

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lôtos/

Noun

l?tos m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. lotus

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (l?tós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ló?t?s/

Noun

l??tos m inan

1. lotus

Inflection

Further reading

• “lotos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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