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English
Etymology
From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.
Pronunciation
Noun
clot (plural clots)
- A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
- A solidified mass of any liquid.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
- A silly person.
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Translations
blood clot
- Aromanian: cljag n
- Bulgarian: съсирек m (sǎsirek)
- Catalan: coàgul (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 血塊 / 血块 (zh) (xuèkuài)
- Dutch: klonter (nl)
- Finnish: hyytymä (fi)
- French: caillot (fr) m, thrombus (fr) m
- German: Blutgerinnsel (de) n
- Greek: θρόμβος (el) m (thrómvos)
- Ancient: θρόμβος m (thrómbos)
- Hungarian: vérrög (hu)
- Ido: grumelo (io)
- Irish: teachtán m
- Italian: coagulo (it) m, trombo (it) m, grumo (it) m
- Japanese: (血の)塊 (かたまり, katamari), 凝血 (ぎょうけつ, gyōketsu)
- Latin: blatta (la) f
- Manx: çhaghtane m
- Maori: poketoto, tepe, tepetepe
- Middle English: clod
- Occitan: grumèl (oc) m, grumèu (oc) m, tromb m
- Persian: لخته (fa) (laxte)
- Polish: skrzep m
- Portuguese: trombo (pt) m, coágulo (pt) m
- Romanian: cheag (ro) n, tromb m
- Russian: сгу́сток (ru) m (sgústok) (кро́ви)
- Spanish: coágulo (es) m, cuajarón (es) m
- Thai: ลิ่ม (th) (lîm)
- Turkish: pıhtı (tr)
- Walloon: alot (wa) m
- Welsh: tolch f, tolchen f
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solidified mass of any liquid
Verb
clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)
- (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine, archived from the original on 5 January 2023:When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.
- (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
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Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
Pronunciation
Noun
clot m (plural clots)
- pit, hole
- dip (a lower section of a road or geological feature)
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Further reading
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.
Pronunciation
Noun
clot (plural clottes)
- A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
- The ground; the earth's surface.
- (figurative) The body.
- (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.
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