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3 letters words from 'mot'

MOT 5TOM 5

2 letters words from 'mot'

MO 4OM 4
TO 2 

All 3 letters words made out of mot

mot omt mto tmo otm tom

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Definitions and meaning of mot

mot

Etymology 1

From French mot. Doublet of motto.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /məʊ/

Noun

mot (plural mots)

  1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
    • 1859, unknown author, "Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold", in North British Review
      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.
    • 1597-1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
      With his big title, an Italian mot
  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

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒt/
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

mot (plural mots)

  1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
  2. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
  3. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A landlady.

Anagrams

  • OMT, OTM, TMO, Tom, tom

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”). Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather, year, era’ 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
    Synonym: qëro (archaic)
  2. year
  3. era, times (uncountable)

Declension

Derived terms

Compounds

Related terms

Adverb

mot

  1. next year

References

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈmot/
  • Rhymes: -ot

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
    Synonym: paraula

Derived terms

  • joc de mots

Further reading

  • “mot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

mot

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

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔt/
  • Hyphenation: mot
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)
Hyponyms
  • nachtvlinder
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: mot
  • → Papiamentu: mot (dated)

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
    Synonym: zeug
  2. (by extension) a lewd woman
Derived terms

Etymology 4

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

Noun

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

  1. light rain; drizzle
Related terms
  • motregen

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. Compare Catalan mot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mo/
  • Rhymes: -o
  • [œ̃ˈmo]
  • [ləˈmo]
  • Homophones: mots, maux

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word
    Synonym: parole
  2. note, (short) message
    Synonyms: message, note

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “mot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • TOM

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mot.

Alternative forms

  • mote, mothe, mouthe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔːt/

Noun

mot (plural motes)

  1. a speck, particle
Descendants
  • English: mote
  • Yola: mothe, mot
References
  • “mōt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

mot

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)

Middle French

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Descendants

  • French: mot

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/

Etymology 1

Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mót

Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota or motene)

  1. a meeting
Derived terms
  • åmot

Etymology 3

Preposition

mot

  1. to, towards
  2. against, from
  3. against, versus
Derived terms

References

  • “mot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

  1. courage
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mót.

Noun

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota)

  1. a meeting
Derived terms
  • åmot

Etymology 3

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

Preposition

mot

  1. to, towards
  2. against, from; for
  3. against, versus
Derived terms

References

  • “mot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • mòt

Etymology

From Late Latin muttum

Pronunciation

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːt/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mōt

  1. first/third-person singular present of motan

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • ġemōt

Noun

mōt n

  1. meeting, assembly
Declension
Descendants
  • Middle English: mot, ȝemot
    • English: moot
    • Scots: mut, mote

Old French

Etymology 1

From Late Latin muttum.

Noun

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

  1. word
    Synonym: (more common) parole
Descendants
  • French: mot

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

From Latin multus.

Alternative forms

  • mout

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

  • von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “muttum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 63, page 303

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/

Noun

mot n

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

Declension

Preposition

mot

  1. to, towards
  2. against
  3. versus

Anagrams

  • Tom, t.o.m., tom

Tocharian B

Noun

mot

  1. alcohol
  2. alcoholic beverage

Volapük

Noun

mot (nominative plural mots)

  1. mother
    Synonym: jifat
    Hypernym: pal
    Coordinate term: fat

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Walloon

Noun

mot m (plural mots)

  1. word

Derived terms

  • motî

Westrobothnian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mot n or f (definite singular mote or mota)

  1. Mould, form to cast something in.
  2. Part of a wheel ring.
  3. (as an adverb, with dative) To meet.
  4. (as an adverb, with dative) Towards.
Declension
Derived terms

Yola

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps from Middle English but, from Old English būtan.

Preposition

mot

  1. but

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mot

  1. asking

References

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith

Source: wiktionary.org
  • (French) a witty saying.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)