cot

cot

1. (trigonometry) cotangent

• cotan
• cotg
• ctg
• ctn

• (UK, General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): /kɒt/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [kʰɒʔ(t)]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [kʰɔt], [kʰɔʔ]

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  • (Boston) IPA^(key): [kʰɒːt̚]
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑt/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [kʰɑt̚]

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  • (Northern Cities Vowel Shift) IPA^(key): [kʰat̚]

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• Homophones: caught (accents with cot-caught merger), court (non-rhotic accents with cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒt

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

cot (plural cots)

1. (US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes; a camp bed.
2. A crib (child's bed).
3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

• cot-bed
• three hots and a cot

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 (Scytho-Sarmatian) *kuta (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

cot (plural cots)

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
   • Goldsmith

     the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   • 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; a cote.

• coscet
• cosset
• cote
• cotter

From Irish cot (“small boat”).

cot (plural cots)

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

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.

• cote (dialectal)

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

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

• cotu

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

1. elbow

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

1. an old measure, unit of length

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:

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

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

Compare Persian جفت‌‎ (joft).

cot ?

1. pair

• cott

From Proto-Germanic *kutą (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (kata, “chamber”)).

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

1. cottage

• cote
• cotsæta

• English: cot

From Latin cattus.

cot m (plural cots)

1. cat

From Latin cubitum. Compare Spanish codo. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

cot n (plural coate)

1. elbow

cot n (plural coturi)

1. corner

cot m (plural coți)

1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

• coti