different between lottos vs lotos

English

Noun

lottos

1. plural of lotto

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