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English
Etymology
From Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
Pronunciation
Verb
rot (third-person singular simple present rots, present participle rotting, simple past and past participle rotted)
- (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.
- (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
- (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
to rot vegetable fiber
- (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
to rot in prison
to rot in Hell
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
- (dated, slang) To talk nonsense.
1894, H. G. Wells, The Hammerpond Park Burglary:“Did they hang you well?” said Porson.
“Don’t rot,” said Mr Watkins; “I don’t like it.”
1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’
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Translations
(intransitive) to suffer decomposition
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: أَفْسَدَ (ʔafsada), فَسَدَ (fasada)
- Gulf Arabic: خاس (ḵās)
- Moroccan Arabic: خْمج (ḵməj)
- Armenian: փտել (hy) (pʿtel), նեխել (hy) (nexel)
- Aromanian: putridzãscu
- Assamese: গেলা (gela)
- Azerbaijani: çürümək (az)
- Basque: usteldu
- Belarusian: гніць impf (hnicʹ)
- Breton: breinañ (br)
- Bulgarian: гни́я (bg) impf (gníja)
- Catalan: podrir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 爛/烂 (laan6)
- Mandarin: 腐化 (zh) (fǔhuà), 腐壞/腐坏 (zh) (fǔhuài), 腐爛/腐烂 (zh) (fǔlàn)
- Cornish: pedri, breyna
- Czech: hnít (cs) impf
- Danish: rådne
- Dutch: rotten (nl), vergaan (nl)
- Erzya: наксадомс (naksadoms)
- Esperanto: putri
- Estonian: mädanema (et)
- Finnish: mädäntyä (fi), mädätä (fi), lahota (fi)
- French: pourrir (fr)
- Galician: podrecer (gl)
- Georgian: ლპობა (lṗoba), დალპობა (dalṗoba), ჩალპობა (čalṗoba), ხრწნა (xrc̣na)
- German: verrotten (de), verderben (de), faulen (de), verfaulen (de), verwesen (de), putreszieren, sich zersetzen, in Fäulnis übergehen
- Greek: σαπίζω (el) (sapízo)
- Ancient: σήπομαι (sḗpomai)
- Hebrew: נרקב m (nirkáv)
- Hungarian: rohad (hu), rothad (hu)
- Irish: lobh
- Italian: marcire (it), putrefarsi
- Japanese: 腐る (ja) (くさる, kusaru)
- Khmer: រលួយ (km) (rɔluəy)
- Kituba: bola
- Korean: 썩다 (ko) (sseokda), 부패하다 (ko) (bupaehada)
- Latgalian: pyut, trupēt
- Latin: pūtrescō, putrefaciō, tābescō
- Latvian: pūt (lv)
- Lithuanian: pūti
- Macedonian: гние impf (gnie)
- Malayalam: ചീയുക (ml) (cīyuka)
- Maori: whakapopo
- Moksha: наксадомс (naksadoms)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: poirir (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: гнити impf (gniti)
- Old Tupi: tuîuk
- Oromo: tortoruu
- Persian: پوسیدن (fa) (pusidan), گندیدن (fa) (gandidan)
- Polish: gnić (pl) impf
- Portuguese: putrefazer, apodrecer (pt)
- Quechua: ismuy (qu)
- Romanian: putrezi (ro), descompune (ro)
- Russian: гнить (ru) impf (gnitʹ), сгнить (ru) pf (sgnitʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: трулити impf
- Roman: truliti (sh) impf
- Slovak: hniť impf
- Slovene: gniti impf
- Spanish: pudrir (es), podrir (es)
- Swedish: ruttna (sv)
- Tajik: вайрон шудан (vayron šudan), пӯсидан (püsidan)
- Thai: ผุ (th) (pù)
- Tibetan: རུལ (rul)
- Tocharian B: āmp-
- Turkish: çürümek (tr)
- Ukrainian: гни́ти impf (hnýty)
- Uzbek: chirimoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: rữa (vi), rã (vi)
- Walloon: pouri (wa)
- Welsh: pydru (cy), braenu, madru (cy)
- Yiddish: פֿוילן (foyln)
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(transitive) to make putrid
(transitive) to cause to deteriorate in any way, as in morals
- Greek:
- Ancient: σήπω (sḗpō)
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Translations to be checked: "moved over from
decay:rot"
- Armenian: փտել (hy) (pʿtel)
- Bulgarian: гния (bg) (gnija), загнивам (bg) (zagnivam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腐烂 (zh) (fǔlàn), 腐爛/腐烂 (zh) (fǔlàn)
- Czech: hnít (cs)
- Danish: rådne
- Dutch: verrotten (nl), slecht worden
- Finnish: maatua (fi), pilaantua (fi), lahota (fi), mädäntyä (fi)
- French: pourrir (fr)
- Georgian: ლპება (lṗeba), იხრწნება (ixrc̣neba)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: σήπομαι (sḗpomai)
- Hebrew: התקלקל m (hitkalkel)
- Hungarian: korhad (hu), rothad (hu), szuvasodik (hu), elmállik (hu)
- Latvian: pūt (lv)
- Maori: whakapopo, koropungapunga
- Polish: gnić (pl)
- Portuguese: apodrecer (pt), estragar (pt), putrefazer
- Quechua: ismuy (qu)
- Russian: разлага́ться (ru) (razlagátʹsja), гнить (ru) (gnitʹ)
- Spanish: pudrirse (es)
- Swedish: ruttna (sv), sönderfalla (sv), förfalla (sv), sönderdelas (sv)
- Turkish: çürümek (tr)
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Noun
rot (countable and uncountable, plural rots)
- The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
- Decaying matter.
2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115:When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.
- Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
1658–1663, John Milton, Paradise Lost:His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
- (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.
You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.
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Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch rot, dialectal form of rat.
Pronunciation
Noun
rot (plural rotte)
- rat
See also
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Cognate with German rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.
Adjective
rot
- (Formazza) red
References
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin ructus.
Pronunciation
Noun
rot m (plural rots)
- belch
- Synonym: eructe
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Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
See rotten
Adjective
rot (comparative rotter, superlative rotst)
- rotten, spoiled, decayed, putrid
- rotten, tedious, unkind, mean
Inflection
Derived terms
Noun
rot n (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
- rot, something rotten, something rotting
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch rotte.
Noun
rot f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
- (dialectal, Northern) Alternative form of rat.
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch rote.
Noun
rot n or f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
- (military) a file (of men)
- (obsolete) multitude, band, throng
- Synonyms: drom, massa, menigte, schare
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ructus.
Pronunciation
Noun
rot m (plural rots)
- (colloquial) belch, burp
- Synonyms: éructation, renvoi
2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:Des habitudes, des façons de se comporter qui m’avaient façonné et qui pourtant, déjà, me semblaient déplacées — comme les habitudes de ma famille : se promener nu dans la maison, les rots à table, les mains qui n’étaient pas lavées avant le repas.- Habits and ways of behaving which had moulded me, and yet already seemed inappropriate to me – like the way my family would walk around the house naked, burp at the table, not wash their hands before a meal.
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Further reading
Friulian
Etymology
From Latin ruptus.
Adjective
rot (feminine rote)
- broken
Derived terms
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.
Compare Low German root, rod, rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.
Pronunciation
Adjective
rot (strong nominative masculine singular roter, comparative röter or roter, superlative am rötesten or am rotesten)
- red (colour)
- (politics, relational) red (pertaining to Marxism in the widest sense: social democratic, socialist, communist)
- (politics, Germany, in particular, relational) of the social democratic SPD or the more rigidly socialist Linke
- (possibly mildly offensive) red-haired
- (historical, possibly offensive) redskin; Native American; Indian
Declension
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “rot” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “rot” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “rot” in Duden online
- “rot” in OpenThesaurus.de
- rot on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
German Low German
Adjective
rot
- Alternative spelling of root
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
rot n (genitive singular rots, no plural)
- unconsciousness, insensibility
Declension
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Etymology 2
See rotna
Noun
rot n (genitive singular rots, nominative plural rot)
- rot, decay, putrefaction
Declension
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
rot
- Alternative form of rote (“root”)
Etymology 2
Verb
rot
- Alternative form of roten (“to rot”)
Etymology 3
A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
rot (uncountable)
- Rotting or decomposition; the situation where something rots.
- Any disease which causes decaying and decomposition in humans.
- A disease that afflicts sheep; footrot, the rot.
Descendants
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
Noun
rot m or f (definite singular rota or roten, indefinite plural røtter, definite plural røttene)
- root (part of a plant normally below ground level)
- root (of a tooth)
- root (of a hair)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
rot
- imperative of rote
References
- “rot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Akin to English root.
Noun
rot f (definite singular rota, indefinite plural røter, definite plural røtene)
- root (of a plant)
- root (of a tooth)
- root (of a hair)
Inflection
Historical inflection of rot
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Aasen1
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Rot
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Roti
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Røter
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Røterna
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røter (røtar)
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røterne (røtane)
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1917
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rota, roti
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røter
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røtene2
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rota
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røter
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røtene
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2012 (current)
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rot
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rota
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røter
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røtene
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Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren as of 1910.
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse rót.
Noun
rot n (definite singular rotet, uncountable)
- a mess, untidiness, chaos
Det er for mykje rot på loftet. Me må rydda.- The attic is a mess. We have to tidy it up.
Når me prøver å samarbeida med dei, blir det berre rot.- When we try working with them, it just turns into chaos.
References
- “rot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *raud.
Adjective
rōt
- red
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “rōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.
Adjective
rōt
- red
Descendants
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts.
Noun
rōt f
- root
Declension
Declension of rōt (consonant stem)
Descendants
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German rōt, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Compare German rot, Dutch rood, English red.
Adjective
rot
- red
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
rot f
- genitive plural of rota
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish rōt, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
Pronunciation
Noun
rot c
- root; the part of a plant that anchors the plant body
- the part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
- source; an underlying cause
Kärleken till pengar är roten till allt ont.- The love of money is the root of all evil.
- (mathematics) of a number n, a positive number which, when raised to a specified power, yields n; the square root is understood if no power is specified
Kubikroten ur 27 är 3.- The cube root of 27 is 3.
Multiplicera med roten ur 2.- Multiply by root 2.
- (mathematics) a zero (of a function).
- (mathematics) a designated node in a tree.
- (mathematics) curl; a measure on how fast a vector field rotates: it can be described as the cross product of del and a given vectorial field
- (computing) root directory
- (linguistics) a word from which another word is derived.
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Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English road.
Noun
rot
- road, street
- '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:
- Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.
- Many little roads exist on this island.
References
Tok Pisin texts: from the beginning to the present / edited by Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton, Suzanne Romaine. / John Benjamins Publishing Company / Copyright 2003 / →ISBN / page 106
Vilamovian
Etymology
From Italian rata (“installment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
rōt f (plural rota)
- installment (a kind of payment)