cot

See also: cốt, cót, and çot

Translingual

Symbol

cot

  1. A symbol for the trigonometric function cotangent.

Synonyms

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cot (plural cots)

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

From Old English cot (“cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan (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”).

Noun

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.
  3. 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
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

cot (plural cots)

  1. A small, crudely-formed boat.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • cotu

Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun

cot n (plural coati/ coate or coturi)

  1. elbow

Noun

cot m (plural cots or coate/ coati)

  1. an old measure, unit of length

Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian جفت‌‎ (joft).

Noun

cot ?

  1. pair

Old English

Etymology

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

Noun

cot n

  1. cottage

Declension

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Descendants

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

cot n (plural coate)

  1. elbow

Noun

cot n (plural coturi)

  1. corner

Noun

cot m (plural coți)

  1. old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

Derived terms

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