different between plight vs lot

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?t, IPA^(key): /pla?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk") and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).

Noun

plight (plural plights)

1. A dire or unfortunate situation. [from 14th c.]
   • 2005, Lesley Brown, translating Plato, Sophist, 243c:

     Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
2. (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state. [from 14th c.]
3. (obsolete) Good health. [14th–19th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:

     All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares […].

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and pl?on (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish ??????? (flikht). More at pledge.

Noun

plight (plural plights)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
4. (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.
5. (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

Derived terms

• plightful
• plightly

Translations

Verb

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
2. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
3. (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:

     I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

Derived terms

• plighter

Etymology 3

From Middle English plyghten, ply?ten, pley?ten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below).

Verb

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

1. (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

Etymology 4

From Middle English pli?t, plight, plyt, pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (“pleat, fold”). More at plait.

Noun

plight (plural plights)

2. (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

Further reading

• Plight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

English

Etymology

From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlut?. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: l?t, IPA^(key): /l?t/
• (General American) enPR: lät, IPA^(key): /l?t/
• (Boston, Western Pennsylvania) IPA^(key): /l?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

lot (plural lots)

1. A large quantity or number; a great deal.

   Synonyms: load, mass, pile
2. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.

   Synonyms: batch, collection, group, set

3. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
4. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.

   Synonyms: crowd, gang, group

5. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

   Synonyms: allotment, parcel, plot
6. That which happens without human design or forethought.

   Synonyms: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune
7. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

   • The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
8. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
   • 1977, C-3PO in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

     We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

9. A prize in a lottery.

   Synonym: prize

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10. Allotment; lottery.
    • 1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)

      Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.

11. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.

12. (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lot

Derived terms

• a lot

Translations

Verb

lot (third-person singular simple present lots, present participle lotting, simple past and past participle lotted)

1. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
2. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

Anagrams

• LTO, OTL, tol, tol'

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *l?(i)ta, and adjective in *-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to pour”).

Noun

lot m (indefinite plural lot, definite singular loti, definite plural lotët)

1. tear (from the eye)

   Gjak, djersë dhe lot — Blood, sweat and tears

Declension

Derived terms

• losh
• loc
• loçkë
• loke

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lot. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t/
• Hyphenation: lot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

lot n (plural loten, diminutive lootje n)

1. destiny, fate, lot
2. lottery ticket
3. (archaic) lot, allotment (that which has been apportioned to a party)

Related terms

• loten

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: lot

Anagrams

• tol

French

Etymology

From Middle French lot, from Old French loz, los, from Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?. Cognate with English lot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo/

Noun

lot m (plural lots)

1. share (of inheritance)
2. plot (of land)
3. batch (of goods for sale)
4. lot (at auction)
5. prize (in lottery)
6. lot, fate
7. (slang) babe

Derived terms

• gros lot
• sortir du lot

Further reading

• “lot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?t]
• Hyphenation: lot

Noun

lot (first-person possessive lotku, second-person possessive lotmu, third-person possessive lotnya)

1. lot,
   1. (manufacturing) a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
   2. (colloquial) lottery

      Synonyms: lotre, undian

   3. (finance) allotment

Further reading

• “lot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norman

Etymology

From Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlut?.

Noun

lot m (plural lots)

1. (Guernsey) lot (at auction)

Northern Kurdish

Noun

lot ?

1. jump

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lot

1. simple past of la (Etymology 1)
2. simple past of late

Polish

Etymology

Compare Czech let and Russian ????? (poljót).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t/

Noun

lot m inan

1. flight

Declension

Synonyms

• latanie, fruwanie

Related terms

• (adjectives) lotniczy, lotny, nielotny
• (adverbs) lotniczo, lotnie
• (nouns) lotka, lotnictwo, lotniczka, lotnik, lotnisko, lotniskowiec, nalot, odlot, przylot, ulotka, wylot, latawiec, polatucha, podlotek, przelot
• (verbs) lata?, lecie?, odlatywa?, odlecie?, podlatywa?, podlecie?, polata?, polecie?, przylatywa?, przylecie?, ulatywa?, ulecie?, wylata?, wylecie?, wzlatywa?, zlatywa?, zlecie?

Further reading

• lot in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• lot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

lot m (gen lota, pl lotan)

1. sore, wound
2. sting

Tatar

Noun

lot

1. A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 m?sqal = 12.797 g (archaic) [2]

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lot n (plural lotten, diminutive lotsje)

1. lottery ticket
2. fate, destiny

Further reading

• “lot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011