rot
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English roten, rotten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɹɑt/
Audio (General American): (file) - (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɹɔt/
- Homophone: wrought (cot–caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Verb
[edit]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.
- 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
- Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and 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
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs:
- Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.
- (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.’
Synonyms
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Noun
[edit]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.
Synonyms
[edit]- (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense
Translations
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Alabama rot
- Barcoo rot
- bed rot
- bit rot
- bitter rot
- black rot
- brain rot
- brain-rot
- brown rot
- cotton root rot
- crotch rot
- data rot
- disc rot
- disk rot
- dry-rot
- dry rot
- fin rot
- foot rot
- gambler's rot
- gut rot
- heart rot
- jungle rot
- knob rot
- laser rot
- linkrot
- liver rot
- mushroom root rot
- noble rot
- pelt rot
- pizzle rot
- potter's rot
- red rot
- ring rot
- root rot
- rot-13
- rot gut
- rot in hell
- rot me
- rot-proof
- rot-steep
- rot through
- sap rot
- soft rot
- software rot
- star rot
- Texas root rot
- tommy-rot
- violet root rot
- wet rot
- wet-rot
- white rot
- wood-rot
Anagrams
[edit]Afrikaans
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch rot, dialectal form of rat.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]rot (plural rotte)
See also
[edit]Alemannic German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]rot
References
[edit]- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rot m (plural rots)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “rot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From rotten.
Adjective
[edit]rot (comparative rotter, superlative rotst)
Inflection
[edit]Declension of rot | ||||
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uninflected | rot | |||
inflected | rotte | |||
comparative | rotter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | rot | rotter | het rotst het rotste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | rotte | rottere | rotste |
n. sing. | rot | rotter | rotste | |
plural | rotte | rottere | rotste | |
definite | rotte | rottere | rotste | |
partitive | rots | rotters | — |
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]rot n (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch rotte.
Noun
[edit]rot f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle Dutch rote.
Noun
[edit]rot n or f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “rot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rot (feminine rote)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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
[edit]number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist rot | sie ist rot | es ist rot | sie sind rot | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | roter | rote | rotes | rote |
genitive | roten | roter | roten | roter | |
dative | rotem | roter | rotem | roten | |
accusative | roten | rote | rotes | rote | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der rote | die rote | das rote | die roten |
genitive | des roten | der roten | des roten | der roten | |
dative | dem roten | der roten | dem roten | den roten | |
accusative | den roten | die rote | das rote | die roten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein roter | eine rote | ein rotes | (keine) roten |
genitive | eines roten | einer roten | eines roten | (keiner) roten | |
dative | einem roten | einer roten | einem roten | (keinen) roten | |
accusative | einen roten | eine rote | ein rotes | (keine) roten |
Synonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rot
- Alternative spelling of root
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]rot n (genitive singular rots, no plural)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See rotna
Noun
[edit]rot n (genitive singular rots, nominative plural rot)
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]rot
- Alternative form of rote (“root”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]rot
- Alternative form of roten (“to rot”)
Etymology 3
[edit]A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- English: rot
References
[edit]- “rō̆t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-24.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
Noun
[edit]rot m or f (definite singular rota or roten, indefinite plural røtter, definite plural røttene)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]rot
- imperative of rote
References
[edit]- “rot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Akin to English root.
Noun
[edit]rot f (definite singular rota, indefinite plural røter, definite plural røtene)
Inflection
[edit]Historical inflection of rot
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] 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. |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- “rot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *raud.
Adjective
[edit]rōt
Inflection
[edit]This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]- Middle Dutch: rôot
Further reading
[edit]- “rōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]rōt (comparative rōtra, superlative rōtost)
Declension
[edit]Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | rōt | rōt | rōt |
Accusative | rōtne | rōte | rōt |
Genitive | rōtes | rōtre | rōtes |
Dative | rōtum | rōtre | rōtum |
Instrumental | rōte | rōtre | rōte |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | rōte | rōta, rōte | rōt |
Accusative | rōte | rōta, rōte | rōt |
Genitive | rōtra | rōtra | rōtra |
Dative | rōtum | rōtum | rōtum |
Instrumental | rōtum | rōtum | rōtum |
Old High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.
Adjective
[edit]rōt
Descendants
[edit]- Middle High German: rōt
Old Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts.
Noun
[edit]rōt f
Declension
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Swedish: rot
Pennsylvania German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]rot
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rot f
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish rōt, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
Declension
[edit]Declension of rot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | rot | roten | rötter | rötterna |
Genitive | rots | rotens | rötters | rötternas |
Synonyms
[edit]- källa (3)
- nollställe (5)
Derived terms
[edit]- rotvälta (1)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- rot in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
[edit]Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
- Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.
- '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:
References
[edit]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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian rata (“installment”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]rōt f (plural rota)
- installment (a kind of payment)
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