different between lotta vs offa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Contraction

lotta

1. (informal) Contraction of lot of.

Anagrams

• total

Finnish

Etymology

< Lotta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lot??/, [?lo?t???]
• Rhymes: -ot??
• Syllabification: lot?ta

Noun

lotta

1. A member of Lotta Svärd.

Declension

Anagrams

• altot, altto, lotat, talot, tolat, tolta

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“to wrestle”). Compare French lutte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t.ta/

Noun

lotta f (plural lotte)

1. (literally or figuratively) fight, struggle
2. conflict
3. (sports) wrestling

Related terms

• lottare
• lottatore

Verb

lotta

1. third-person singular present of lottare

Further reading

• lotta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• tolta

Swedish

Etymology 1

Noun: The organization Lotta Svärd in Finland formed in 1920, named after the fictional woman Lotta Svärd in Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem The Tales of Ensign Stål (1848).

Verb: lott +? -a

Noun

lotta c

1. a member of a women's voluntary defense corps, a member (in Finland) of Lotta Svärd

Declension

Related terms

• lottakår

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish luta, lota, from Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?n?.

Verb

lotta (present lottar, preterite lottade, supine lottat, imperative lotta)

1. to allot (to distribute by lot), to draw (the winner in a lottery)

Conjugation

Related terms

• lotta fram
• lotta ut
• lotteri
• lottning

Anagrams

• total

English

Preposition

offa

1. (colloquial) Off of.

Related terms

• cuppa
• lotta

Anagrams

• FOAF, foaf

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *yffl (“morsel”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?of.fa/, [??f?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?of.fa/, [??f??]

Noun

offa f (genitive offae); first declension

1. a morsel; a piece; a chunk
2. a dumpling

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• offula

References

• offa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• offa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• offa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette