# loti
## English
### Etymology 1

From the Latin lōtī, the nominative plural form of lōtus (“Egyptian lotus flower”, “date-plum”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōʹtī, IPA: /ˈləʊtaɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

loti
* plural of lotus

### Etymology 2

From the Sotho loti, singular derivation of maloti, mulati (“mountains”); compare Maloti.

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōʹti, lo͞oʹti, IPA: /ˈləʊti/, /ˈluːti/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) Rhymes: -əʊti, -uːti

#### Noun

loti (plural loti or maloti or lotis)
* The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender.
* A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti.

##### Meronyms

* sente

#### References

* “loti, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Third Edition, 2015]

#### Further reading

* Lesotho loti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* -itol, TOIL, ilot, toil

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈloti]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oti
* Hyphenation: lo‧ti

### Verb

loti (present lotas, past lotis, future lotos, conditional lotus, volitive lotu)
* (intransitive) to draw lots

#### Derived terms

* loto (“a lot”)
* lotumi (“to allot”)

#### See also

* aŭkcio (“auction”)
* loterio (“lottery”)

## French
### Participle

loti (feminine lotie, masculine plural lotis, feminine plural loties)
* past participle of lotir

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Noun

loti m
* plural of loto

### Anagrams

* -lito, lito-

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈloː.tiː/, [ˈɫ̪oːt̪iː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈlo.ti/, [ˈlɔːt̪i]

### Etymology 1

See lōtus (“Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea”, “Diospyros lotus”, “Ziziphus lotus”, second-declension masculine noun).

#### Noun

lōtī m
* inflection of lōtus:
** nominative/vocative plural
** genitive singular

##### Descendants

* English: loti

### Etymology 2

See lōtium (“urine”, second-declension neuter noun).

#### Noun

lōtī n
* genitive singular of lōtium

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to bark, to howl”)
* Compare Polish łajać (“to scold”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɫoːtʲɪ/

### Verb

lóti (third-person present tense lója, third-person past tense lójo)
* (intransitive) to bark

#### Synonyms

* skalyti

#### Derived terms

(Nouns)
* lojìmas m

#### See also

* kaukti, riaumoti, staugti, stūgauti, urgzti

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2015) “loti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 293-4
* ↑ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “łajać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 305
* ↑ Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* ↑ Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

## Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish zopilote, from a Nahuan language.

### Noun

loti
* turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

#### Derived terms

* loti ñuꞌu
* Tinduu Loti

### References

* Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 246

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

loti
* (non-standard since 2012) past participle of lyta