aut

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auc, feminine plural autes)

1. high

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewti (“on the other hand”), from *h₂ew. Cognate with Ancient Greek αὖ (aû), αὖτε (aûte), Gothic *𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*auþs). Confer with Latin autem, Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós), αὐτάρ (autár).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯t/

Conjunction

aut

1. or (exclusive or)

   Marcus ludos videbit aut dormiet.

   Marcus will watch the games or sleep [but not both].

   Aut Caesar, aut nihil.

   Either Caesar or nothing (figuratively: all or nothing)

   Aut disce aut discede.

   Either learn or go away.

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:19:

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me

     And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,

References

• aut in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aut in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
    
  • geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Balto-Slavic *aw-, from Proto-Indo-European *ew-, *ow- “to tie, to bind” > “to put on, to dress”. The original meaning was probably “to tie, to wrap (around the foot)”, whence “to put on (footwear)”. Cognates include Lithuanian aũti, Old Church Slavonic обути (obuti) (< *uti), Russian обуть (obutʹ), Belarusian абуць (abúc’), Ukrainian обути (obuti), Bulgarian обуя (obúja), Czech obouti, Polish obuć, Latin exuere (“to take off”) (< *ex-u-ere).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [àwt]

Verb

aut tr., 1st conj., pres. aunu, aun, aun / auju, auj, auj, past āvu

1. put on footwear (shoes, boots, socks, etc.)

   zēns āva kājas ― the boy put on footwear (lit. on his feet)

   aut kājas pastalās ― to put on pastalas (simple footwear) (lit. to put one's feet into pastalas)

   aut kurpes kājas ― to put on shoes (lit. to put shoes on one's feet)

2. nosēdos uz akmens un gribēju aut kājas, bet kurpes bija ļoti sabristas — I sat down on a rock and wanted to put shoes on (lit. to put (my) feet (into shoes)), but the shoes were very wet

   Žanis āva kājās stulmeņu zābakus ― Žanis put the long boots on (his) feet

3. (figuratively, with kājas) to prepare for a journey (lit. to put on footwear)

   un tūliņ ķēniņš aun kājas savu sievu meklēt ― and quickly the king puts on footwear to go looking for his wife

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ʉd/

Verb

aut

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of mynet

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) ault
• (Sutsilvan) òlt
• (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) ot

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auts, feminine plural autas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) high

Etymology

From English out.

Noun

aut m (Cyrillic spelling аут)

1. (sports) area outside the playground borders