cot

Translingual

Symbol

cot

1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes

The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

Synonyms

• cotan
• cotg
• ctg
• ctn (obsolete)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, Canada, Boston) IPA^(key): /kɒt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key):
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): ,

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑt/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): ,

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• (Indian English) IPA^(key): ,
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): obsolete or nonstandard characters (K), invalid IPA characters (K), obsolete or nonstandard characters (K), invalid IPA characters (K), obsolete or nonstandard characters (K), invalid IPA characters (K)
• Homophone: caught (accents with cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

   Synonym: camp bed

2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

   Synonym: crib

3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
   • 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: W. Griffin, , →OCLC:

     the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   • 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:

     One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.

   • 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).

     Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban

2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

   Synonym: cote

Derived terms

Related terms

• coscet
• cosset
• cote
• cotter

Translations

Etymology 3

From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4

From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

Alternative forms

• cote (dialectal)

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

   a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)

   a cot for a sore finger

Etymology 5

Contraction of cot-quean.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347:

     You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

References

Anagrams

• CTO, OCT, OTC, Oct, Oct., TCO, TOC, oct, oct-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cotu

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

1. elbow

Noun

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

1. an old measure, unit of length

Catalan

Etymology 1

From acotar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ot

Adjective

cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)

1. bowed, towards the ground
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Reia i reia amb el cap cot, contenint-se a mitges.

     He laughed and laughed with his head down, half restraining himself.

Etymology 2

From cota (“coat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (historical) long robe or overcoat with sleeves, worn by men and women

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin quotus (“how much”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (historical, Catalan law) monetary penalty imposed by some Andorran councils

Etymology 4

Inherited from Latin cōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (obsolete) whetstone

   Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

Further reading

• “cot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. Alternative spelling of côt

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian جفت (joft).

Noun

cot ?

1. pair

Old English

Alternative forms

• cott

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.

However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot/

Noun

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

1. cottage

Declension

Derived terms

• cote
• cotsæta

Descendants

• English: cot

References

Old French

Noun

cot oblique singular, f (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular cot, nominative plural coz or cotz)

1. Alternative form of cotte

Picard

Etymology

From Latin cattus.

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. cat

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cubitum, probably through a later Vulgar Latin contracted form *cubtu, perhaps becoming *cout in earlier Romanian. Compare Aromanian cot, Spanish codo; cf. also Albanian kut. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

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Noun

cot n (plural coate)

1. elbow

Declension

Noun

cot n (plural coturi)

1. corner
2. a bend of a river

Declension

Noun

cot m (plural coți)

1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Declension

Derived terms

• coti
• cotări

Romansch

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

Tyap

Alternative forms

• cod, chot, chod

Etymology

From English church.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔd/

Noun

cot (plural ncot)

1. church

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (North Wales) côt

Etymology

From English coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot f (plural cotiau)

1. (South Wales) coat

Derived terms

• cot law

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies