cot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cot"

Translingual

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)

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, Canada, Boston) IPA^(key): /kɒt/

  • Audio (General Australian):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑt/

  • Audio (US):

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• (India) IPA^(key): /kɔt/, /kɔʈ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /kɔt/
• Homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

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

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

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

folding bed — see camp bed

portable or temporary bed

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

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: lehátko n
• Finnish: varavuode; heteka (fi), pukkisänky (specific types); lisävuode (fi) (hotel); kenttävuode (military)
• 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
• Portuguese: catre (pt) m
• Russian: ко́йка (ru) f (kójka), раскладу́шка (ru) f (raskladúška) (folding bed)
• Spanish: camilla (es) f, catre (es) m, catrera (es) f (Bolivia)
• Volapük: flegülabed
• Yiddish: באַנקבעטל n (bankbetl)

nautical: wooden bed frame

• Bulgarian: ко́йка 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

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

• Spanish: cuna (es) f, pesebre (es) m
• 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)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} cama plegable f

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”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; 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

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

• 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

• 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

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.

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

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.

Anagrams

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

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): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [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): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

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

Etymology 3

Borrowed 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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cot m (plural cots)

1. (obsolete) whetstone

   Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

Further reading

• “cot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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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/

Noun

cot n (nominative plural cotu)

1. cottage

Declension

Declension of cot (strong a-stem)

Case	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

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

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Noun

cot n (plural coate)

1. elbow

Declension

Declension of cot

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cot	cotul	(niște) coate	coatele
genitive/dative	(unui) cot	cotului	(unor) coate	coatelor
vocative	cotule		coatelor

Noun

cot n (plural coturi)

1. corner
2. a bend of a river

Declension

Declension of cot

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cot	cotul	(niște) coturi	coturile
genitive/dative	(unui) cot	cotului	(unor) coturi	coturilor
vocative	cotule		coturilor

Noun

cot m (plural coți)

1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Declension

Declension of cot

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cot	cotul	(niște) coți	coții
genitive/dative	(unui) cot	cotului	(unor) coți	coților
vocative	cotule		coților

Derived terms

• coti
• cotări

Romansch

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

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cot	got	nghot	chot
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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