mot

See also: Mot, MOT, mót, mòt, mốt, möt, một, moț, and møt

English

Etymology 1

From French mot. Compare motto.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/

Noun

mot (plural mots)

  1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
    • N. Brit. Rev.
      Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.
    • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 32:
      ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
  2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hall to this entry?)
    • Shakespeare
      Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
  3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

Etymology 2

Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

Pronunciation

Noun

mot (plural mots)

  1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
    • 1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896:
      Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.
    • 1829 July 1, Vidocq, Eugène François; Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎, number 45, page 133:
      And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.
  2. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
  3. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
    • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:
      After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *māti ‘time’, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis ‘measurement’, deverbative of *meh₁- ‘to measure’; compare Old English mǣþ ‘measure’, Lithuanian mẽtas ‘time’, Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis) ‘plan’.[1] Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather’ influenced by Latin tempus ‘time; weather’ (compare Romanian timp, French temps).

Noun

mot m (indefinite plural mote, definite singular moti, definite plural motet)

  1. weather
  2. year

Derived terms

Compounds

  • motkeqe

References

  1. ↑ Vladimir Orel, Albanian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 274–5.

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
    Synonym: paraula

Derived terms

Further reading

Crimean Tatar

Noun

mot

  1. fashion
    Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar
    Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔt
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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch motte. Cognate to English moth, German Motte.

Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. nocturnal butterfly-like insect: moth
Synonyms

Etymology 2

An onomatopoeia.

Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. a slap, a blow, a hit (physical aggression with hands or fists)
  2. (by extension) a quarrel, tiff

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German mutte.

Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. a female pig; a sow
  2. (by extension) a lewd woman
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. light rain; drizzle

French

Etymology

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Has almost entirely replaced parole in Modern French, perhaps because of its shortness.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • audio(file)
  • Audio (Belgium)(file)

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
  2. note, (short) message

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle French

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/

Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage

Preposition

mot

  1. to, towards
    Kjør mot byen.
    Drive towards town.
  2. against, from
    En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet!
    An umbrella protects you from the rain!
  3. against, versus
    Det var et kappløp mot tiden.
    It was a race against time.

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/

Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage

Derived terms

Preposition

mot

  1. to, towards
    Han kom mot dei.
    He came towards them.
  2. against, from; for
    Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase?
    Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?
  3. against, versus
    Kven skal me spela mot?
    Who shall we play against?

Derived terms

References

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin muttum

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Old English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːt/

Etymology 1

Inflected forms.

Verb

mōt

  1. First-person singular present form of motan
  2. Third-person singular present form of motan

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *mōtą. Cognate with Old High German muot, Old Norse mót (Swedish möte).

Noun

mōt n

  1. meeting, assembly
Declension

Descendants

Old French

Etymology 1

Late Latin muttum

Noun

mot m (oblique plural moz or motz, nominative singular moz or motz, nominative plural mot)

  1. word
Synonyms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See molt

Adjective

mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)

  1. Alternative form of molt

Adverb

mot

  1. Alternative form of molt

Old Occitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mot/

Etymology 1

Latin multus.

Alternative forms

Adverb

mot

  1. much; alot

Etymology 2

From Late Latin muttum.

Noun

mot m (oblique plural motz, nominative singular motz, nominative plural mot)

  1. word

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/
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Noun

mot n

  1. (chiefly west Sweden) interchange; a large junction where two or more roads meet.

Declension

Declension of mot 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mot motet mot moten
Genitive mots motets mots motens

Preposition

mot

  1. to, towards
    Kör mot stan
    Drive towards the town
  2. against
    Det där är mot lagen!
    That’s against the law!
  3. versus

Volapük

Noun

mot (plural mots)

  1. mother

Declension

Synonyms

  • jifat

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

See also

Walloon

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Derived terms

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /muːt/, [mɯ́ᵝːt], [móʊ̯ːt]
    Rhymes: -úːt

Preposition

mot

  1. (with dative) towards
    han kåmme gɑen mot gɑlåm
    he came walking towards the estate
Derived terms

Noun

mot n (definite singular mote, definite plural mota)

  1. mold, form to cast something in
Derived terms
  • kulmot n
  • tegelmot n

Noun

mot n

  1. part of a wheel ring

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /²muːt/, [mɯ̀ᵝːt]
    Rhymes: -ùːt

Verb

mot (preterite mote)

  1. to shape something in a mold
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