sot

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), of obscure origin and relation. Compare Dutch zot (“silly”), French sot.

• Rhymes: -ɒt

sot (plural sots)

1. (archaic) stupid person; fool
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2

     Remember / First to possess his books; for without them / He's but a sot, as I am […]

   • Oldham

     In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down, / And reverence some deified Baboon.

2. drunkard
   • Roscommon

     Every sign / That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.

• (stupid person): See also Thesaurus:idiot (intelligence) or Thesaurus:fool (wisdom)
• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

• sottish

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

1. To drink until one becomes drunk
2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
   • Dryden

     I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

• besot
• sotted
• sot-weed

• OST, OTs, TOS, TOs, TSO, Tso, ost

• sod [sod] (Gheg) [1]
• σὸτ [sot] (Arvanite) [2]

From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱjeh₂ diHteí, dative-locative compound, literally ‘this day’. Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See ditë, which is related to the second component.

• IPA^(key): [sot]

sot

1. today

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔt/

sot m (plural sots)

1. pit

From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetian suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

sot

1. dry

Cognate with Latin sunt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːt/

sōt

1. third-person plural present active indicative of esu

From Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /so/

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sot (feminine singular sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)

1. silly, foolish, stupid

sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

1. imbecile, fool

• sottise

• “sot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansh sut, suot, Venetian sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.

sot

1. under, beneath, underneath
2. below, south of

sot

1. down
2. underneath
3. below

• disot

From Latin subtus.

sot

1. under, beneath
2. below

sot

1. inflection of soen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. first-person singular preterite indicative
   3. third-person singular preterite indicative
   4. second-person plural preterite indicative
   5. second-person plural imperative

From Old Norse sót

sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)

1. soot

• “sot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sot” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse sót

sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)

1. soot

• “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

sōt n

1. soot.

• Middle English: sot, sote, soote
  • English: soot
  • Scots: sute, suit

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

sōt f

1. sickness

• Swedish: sot

• IPA^(key): /suːt/

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From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot n

1. soot

• sota
• sotare

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz

sot c

1. (archaic) disease, sickness

sot (plural sots)

1. a sort
2. a kind
3. a type

• bid

Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط‎‎ (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).

sot

1. whip
2. whipping, beating

• chgoꞌo sot

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎ (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273