lotta

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɒtə/
• Rhymes: -ɒtə

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

lotta

1. (informal) Contraction of lot of.

   A whole lotta people feel the same way I do.

   • 1972, Al Green (lyrics and music), “Simply Beautiful”:

     I'm gonna be good to you / There's a whole lotta things / You and I could do

• total

• IPA^(key): /ˈlotːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -otːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): lot‧ta

< Lotta

lotta

1. member of Lotta Svärd

• “1. lotta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-07-27

Adapted to Finnish from French charlotte russe.

lotta

1. charlotte russe (type of dessert)

• “2. lotta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-07-27

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔt.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔtta
• Hyphenation: lòt‧ta

Inherited from Late Latin lucta, from Latin lūctāre (“to wrestle”). Compare French lutte. By surface analysis, lottare (“to fight”) +‎ -a.

lotta f (plural lotte)

1. (literal or figurative) fight, struggle
2. conflict
3. (sports) wrestling

• lotta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lotta

1. third-person singular present indicative of lottare

• latto, latto-, lattò, tolta

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

lotta c

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

• lottakår

From Old Swedish luta, lota, from Old Norse hluta, from Proto-Germanic *hlutōną.

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

1. to draw lots

   Synonym: dra lott

   Vi lottade om vem som skulle börja

   We drew lots to decide who would go first

2. to draw (the winner in a lottery)

• lotta fram
• lotta ut
• lotteri
• lottning

• lotta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lotta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lotta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• total