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Definitions and meaning of sot

sot

Translingual

Symbol

sot

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sotho.

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɒt/
  • Rhymes: -ɒt
  • Homophone: sought (cot–caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).

Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

Noun

sot (plural sots)

  1. (archaic) Stupid person; fool.
    • c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated
      In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
      And reverence some deified Baboon.
  2. Drunkard.
    • April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235
      Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.
Synonyms
  • (stupid person): See also Thesaurus:idiot (intelligence) or Thesaurus:fool (wisdom)
  • (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard
Derived terms
  • sottish
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sotten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

  1. To drink until one becomes drunk
  2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
Derived terms
  • besot
  • sotted
  • sot-weed
Translations

Etymology 3

Compare sod (vulgar interjection).

Pronunciation

  • (Singapore) IPA(key): /sɒt/

Adjective

sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, vulgar) Upset, unhappy or bitter about something.

Etymology 4

From Cantonese short (sot1, “crazy”), itself a clipping of English short circuit.

Adjective

sot (comparative more sot, superlative most sot, reduplicated sot sot)

  1. (Singlish, Manglish) Insane, crazy, screwed up.

Verb

sot (invariable)

  1. (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To short circuit, to go haywire or malfunction.
  2. (Singlish, Manglish, intransitive) To go crazy.

References

Anagrams

  • ToS, TOs, Tso, OST, sto, OTs, ost, OTS, ots, TOS, TSO

Achang

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Myanmar) /sɔt˧/
  • (Lianghe) [sut³¹]
  • (Longchuan) [sut⁵⁵]
  • (Luxi) [sut⁵⁵]
  • (Xiandao) [sut⁵⁵]

Noun

sot

  1. nest

Further reading

  • Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎[3], Payap University, page 121

Albanian

Alternative forms

  • sod — Gheg
  • σὸτ — Arvanitika

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from a Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱyeh₂ dh₂itéy (dative-locative compound, literally “this day”). Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See also ditë, which is related to the second component.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sot]

Adverb

sot

  1. today

Derived terms

  • sotmë, sormë

Related terms

  • sonte
  • sivjet
  • ditë

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Paleo-Hispanic root *(t)sott-.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sot m (plural sots)

  1. hollow
  2. pit, hole
  3. grave

Derived terms

  • ensotar
  • sotal

Further reading

  • “sot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “sot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetan suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

Adjective

sot

  1. dry

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz, cognate with Norwegian sott, Swedish sot (archaic), German Sucht. Derived from the verb *seukaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soːˀt/, [ˈsoˀd̥]

Noun

sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)

  1. (dated) disease

Synonyms

  • sygdom

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “sot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faliscan

Etymology

Cognate with Latin sunt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsoːt/

Verb

sōt

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of 𐌄𐌔𐌞 (esú)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern zut! (“damn it!”). This Latin word was borrowed into Germanic languages such as Dutch zot, Old English sott (modern English sot).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /so/
    • Homophones: saut, sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux, sots
  • (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA(key): /sɔ/
    • Homophone: sots

Adjective

sot (feminine sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)

  1. silly, foolish, stupid

Derived terms

  • il n'y a pas de sot métier

Noun

sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

  1. imbecile, fool

Derived terms

  • sottise

References

Further reading

  • “sot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetan sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.

Preposition

sot

  1. under, beneath, underneath
  2. below, south of

Adverb

sot

  1. down
  2. underneath
  3. below

Derived terms

  • disot

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin subtus.

Pronunciation

Adverb

sot

  1. under, beneath
  2. below

Luxembourgish

Verb

sot

  1. inflection of soen:
    1. second-person plural present/preterite indicative
    2. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
    3. second-person plural imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sot, sott, from Medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot (“idiotic”), of obscure origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern French zut! (“damn it!”).

Alternative forms

  • sotte, sote, sott, soth

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔt/, /sɔːt/

Noun

sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)

  1. One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
  2. A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
  3. (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.
Derived terms
  • sotie
  • sotliche
  • sotschipe
  • sotten
Descendants
  • English: sot
  • Scots: sot
References
  • “sot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

Adjective

sot (plural and weak singular sotte)

  1. idiotic, unwise
References
  • “sot, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

Etymology 2

From Old English sōt.

Noun

sot

  1. alternative form of soot (“soot”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)

  1. soot

References

  • “sot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “sot” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)

  1. soot

References

  • “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soːt/

Noun

sōt n

  1. soot

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Descendants

  • Middle English: soot, soeth, sood, soote, sot, sote, soth, soyte, suotte, sude, sute (Northern)
    • English: soot
    • Scots: suit, sute
    • Yola: zoot

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soːt/

Noun

sōt f

  1. sickness

Declension

Synonyms

  • siuka

Descendants

  • Swedish: sot

References

  • sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T

Scots

Adverb

sot

  1. so (to contradict a negative clause)

References

  • “sot”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Sranan Tongo

Determiner

sot

  1. pronunciation spelling of sortu (“what kind of”)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suːt/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Noun

sot n

  1. soot
Declension
Related terms
  • sota
  • sotare
  • sotbrand (“chimney fire”)
  • soteld (“chimney fire”)

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

Noun

sot c

  1. (archaic) disease, sickness
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
  • sota

References

  • sot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • sot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • sot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • 1. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
  • 2. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • ost, ots, sto

Volapük

Noun

sot (nominative plural sots)

  1. a sort
  2. a kind
  3. a type

Declension

Synonyms

  • bid

Waigali

Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *satta, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *saptá, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsot/

Numeral

sot (Nisheigram)

  1. seven

References

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).

Noun

sot

  1. whip
  2. whipping, beating

Derived terms

  • chgoꞌo sot

References

  • Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273

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