cot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cot"

Translingual

Etymology 1

Clipping of English cotangent.

Symbol

cot

1. (trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes

The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

Synonyms

• cotan
• cotg
• ctg
• ctn (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of English Caquinte with o as a placeholder.

Symbol

cot

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Caquinte.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Caquinte terms

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, New Zealand, Canada, Boston) IPA^(key): /kɒt/
• (Standard Southern British, Australia, Scotland) IPA^(key): /kɔt/

  • Audio (Australia):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑt/

  • Audio (US):

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• (India)
  • (cot–caught merger, most common) IPA^(key): /kɔːʈ/, [kɔːʈ ~ kɒːʈ]
  • (father–bother merger) IPA^(key): /kɑːʈ/, [kɑːʈ ~ käːʈ]
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /kɒʈ/, [kɒʈ ~ kɔʈ]
• Homophones: caught (cot–caught merger), xat (father–bother merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

Cots for stranded passengers at O'Hare International Airport

cot (plural cots)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

   Synonym: camp bed

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 153:

     There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.

2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

   Synonym: crib

3. (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Derived terms

• carrycot
• chuck one's toys out of the cot
• cot-bed
• cot-caught merger
• cot death
• cotless
• Cotman
• fingercot
• finger cot
• life cot
• meat-safe cot
• pigscot
• portacot
• three hots and a cot
• throw one's rattle out of the cot
• throw one's toys out of the cot

Translations

portable or temporary bed — see also camp bed,‎ gurney

• Bulgarian: похо́дно легло́ n (pohódno legló)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行軍床 / 行军床 (zh) (xíngjūnchuáng), 折疊床 / 折叠床 (zhédiéchuáng)

• Czech: lehátko n
• Finnish: varavuode; heteka (fi), pukkisänky (specific types); lisävuode (fi) (hotel); kenttävuode (military); punkka (fi)
• French: lit de camp (fr) m
• German: Feldbett (de) n
• Gujarati: ખાટલો m (khāṭlo), ખાટલી (khāṭlī)
• Hebrew: מִטַּת שָׂדֶה f (mitat sadeh)
• Italian: branda (it)
• Latin: grabātus m
• Navajo: tsáskʼeh áłtsʼóózígíí
• Portuguese: catre (pt) m
• Russian: ко́йка (ru) f (kójka), раскладу́шка (ru) f (raskladúška) (folding bed)
• Spanish: catre (es) m, catrera (es) f (Bolivia), colombina (es) f, catre de tijera m
• Swedish: hopfällbar säng, brits (sv)
• Volapük: flegülabed
• Yiddish: באַנקבעטל n (bankbetl)

nautical: wooden bed frame

• Bulgarian: ко́йка (bg) f (kójka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: riippusänky
• Hebrew: עַרְסָלָה (he) f (arsalah)
• Russian: ко́йка (ru) f (kójka), подвесна́я посте́ль f (podvesnája postélʹ) (suspense bed)
• Yiddish: באַנקבעטל n (bankbetl)

bed for children

• Bulgarian: де́тско крева́тче n (détsko krevátče)
• Catalan: bressol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嬰兒床 / 婴儿床 (zh) (yīng'érchuáng), 娃娃床 (wáwachuáng), 兒童床 / 儿童床 (értóngchuáng), 小床 (xiǎochuáng)

• Czech: postýlka (cs) f
• Dutch: kinderbed (nl), ledikantje (nl) m, wieg (nl) m
• Finnish: lastensänky, vauvasänky; pinnasänky (fi)
• French: lit de bébé m, huche (fr) f
• German: Kinderbett (de) n
• Greek: κούνια (el) f (koúnia)
• Italian: greppia (it) f, presepe (it) m, lettino m, culla (it) f
• Japanese: ベビーベッド (bebībeddo)
• Korean: 어린이 침대 (eorini chimdae)
• Norwegian: barneseng, sprinkelseng
• Portuguese: berço (pt) m
• Russian: де́тская крова́тка f (détskaja krovátka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: креветац m, дечји креветац m, дјечји креветац m

  Latin: krevetac (sh) m, dečji krevetac m, dječji krevetac m

• Spanish: cuna (es) f, pesebre (es) m
• Turkish: bebek karyolası
• Ukrainian: дитя́че лі́жечко n (dytjáče lížečko)
• Welsh: cot (cy) m, crud m, preseb m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} canichot m (Jersey)

Etymology 2

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”)), of unknown origin; perhaps from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)), but see Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent, teepee”). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote (“hut, shelter for livestock”); more distantly related to cottage.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
   • 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:

     the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

   • 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:

     One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.

   • 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

   • 1951, Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird, Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, page 21:

     [H]e would [...] return in the evening from the west of her cot to spend another hour or two in the garden.

2. A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

   Synonym: cote

Derived terms

• bell cot
• cothouse
• cotland
• cot-quean

Related terms

• coscet
• cosset
• cote
• cotter

Translations

homestead

• Bulgarian: коли́ба (bg) f (kolíba)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小屋 (zh) (xiǎowū)

• Finnish: mökki (fi)
• Italian: casolare (it), capanna (it) f, casupola (it) f
• Japanese: 小屋 (ja) (こや, koya)
• Manx: cott
• Portuguese: casebre (pt) m
• Russian: уса́дьба (ru) f (usádʹba), хи́жина (ru) f (xížina) (hut), лачу́га (ru) f (lačúga) (hut)

cover or sheath

• Bulgarian: кошара (bg) f (košara)
• Finnish: tuppi (fi) (sheath); sormituppi (sheath for sore finger)
• Italian: stalla (it) f, stabbio (it) m, riparo (it) m, capanna (it) f

finger cover to prevent static discharge

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: sormustin (fi)
• Italian: ditale (it) m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 3

From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *kuttô

Proto-West Germanic *kottō

Old English *cot

Middle English cot(e)

Proto-Germanic *kuttôbor.

Latin cotta

Old French cottebor.

Middle English cote

English cot

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. Possibly influenced by cotton. Doublet of coat.

Alternative forms

• cote (dialectal)

Noun

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

2. (obsolete) A matted lock (of a fabric such as wool).

Derived terms

• fingercot
• (dialectal) cot-gare (“refuse wool”)

Etymology 5

Contraction of cot-quean.

Noun

cot (plural cots)

1. (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347:

     You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

Etymology 6

Variant of cock#Etymology_2

Noun

cot

1. (African-American Vernacular, dated) vulva; vagina.

Anagrams

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

Achang

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rV-tsut (“lung”).

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /cʰɔt˧/
• (Longchuan) [a³¹.tɕhot⁵⁵]
• (Xiandao) [a³¹.cʰut⁵⁵]

Noun

cot

1. lung

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[2], Payap University, page 20

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• cotu

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

1. elbow

Noun

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

1. an old measure, unit of length

Catalan

Etymology 1

From acotar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈkut]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkot]
• Rhymes: -ot

Adjective

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, →ISBN:

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

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

Etymology 2

From cota (“coat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈko̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (historical) long robe or overcoat with sleeves, worn by men and women

Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Latin quotus (“how much”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkot]

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (historical, Catalan law) monetary penalty imposed by some Andorran councils

Etymology 4

Inherited from Latin cōs. Compare Sicilian cuti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈko̞t]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (obsolete) whetstone

   Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cot”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. alternative spelling of côt

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin cubitum.

Noun

cot n

1. elbow

Megleno-Romanian

Alternative forms

• cuot, cuăt

Etymology

From Latin cubitum.

Noun

cot n

1. elbow

References

• Atasanov, Petar (1990), Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian جفت (joft).

Noun

cot ?

1. pair

Old English

Alternative forms

• cott

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.

However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kot/
• Rhymes: -ot

Noun

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

1. cottage

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	cot	cotu
accusative	cot	cotu
genitive	cotes	cota
dative	cote	cotum

Derived terms

• cote
• cotsæta

Descendants

• English: cot

Old French

Noun

cot oblique singular, f (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular cot, nominative plural coz or cotz)

1. alternative form of cotte

Picard

Etymology

From Latin cattus.

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. cat

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Zagórze) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɔt]

Noun

cot m inan

1. (Zagórze) unit of measure equal to 2.4 cm

Further reading

• Józefa Kobylińska (2001), “cal”, in Marian Kucała, editor, Słownik gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej)‎^[3] (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, →ISBN, page 12

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cubitum, probably through a later Vulgar Latin contracted form *cubtu, perhaps becoming *cout in earlier Romanian. Compare Aromanian cot, Spanish codo; cf. also Albanian kut. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

cot n (plural coate)

1. elbow

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cot	cotul	coate	coatele
genitive-dative	cot	cotului	coate	coatelor
vocative	cotule		coatelor

Noun

cot n (plural coturi)

1. corner
2. a bend of a river

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cot	cotul	coturi	coturile
genitive-dative	cot	cotului	coturi	coturilor
vocative	cotule		coturilor

Noun

cot m (plural coți)

1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	cot	cotul	coți	coții
genitive-dative	cot	cotului	coți	coților
vocative	cotule		coților

Derived terms

• coti
• cotări

Romansh

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

Tyap

Alternative forms

• cod, chot, chod

Etymology

From English church.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɔd/

Noun

cot (plural ncot)

1. church

Welsh

Alternative forms

• (North Wales) côt

Etymology

From English coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot f (plural cotiau)

1. (South Wales) coat

Derived terms

• cot law

Mutation

Mutated forms of cot

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cot	got	nghot	chot

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies