# cot
## Translingual
### Symbol

cot
* (trigonometry) cotangent

#### Usage notes

The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

#### Synonyms

* cotan
* cotg
* ctg
* ctn (obsolete)

## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, General Australian, Canada, Boston) IPA: /kɒt/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /kɑt/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (South Asia) IPA: /kɒʈ/, /kaːʈ/
* (Ireland) IPA: /kɔt/
* Homophone: caught (cot–caught merger)
* Rhymes: -ɒt

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

cot (plural cots)
* (Canada, US, Philippines) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
    Synonym: camp bed
* (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
    Synonym: crib
* (nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

##### Derived terms

* carrycot
* chuck one's toys out of the cot
* cot-bed
* cot-caught merger
* cot death
* cotless
* Cotman
* fingercot
* finger cot
* life cot
* meat-safe cot
* pigscot
* portacot
* three hots and a cot
* throw one's rattle out of the cot
* throw one's toys out of the cot

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

#### Noun

cot (plural cots)
* (archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
** 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC:the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
** 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
** 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
* A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
    Synonym: cote

##### Derived terms

* bell cot
* cothouse
* cotland
* cot-quean

##### Related terms

* coscet
* cosset
* cote
* cotter

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Irish coite, coit (“small boat”), possibly from Medieval Latin cattia (“pan”).

#### Noun

cot (plural cots)
* A small, crudely-formed boat.

### Etymology 4

From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

#### Alternative forms

* cote (dialectal)

#### Noun

cot (plural cots)
* 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

### Etymology 5

Contraction of cot-quean.

#### Noun

cot (plural cots)
* (obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
** 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347:You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 coite”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Anagrams

* CTO, OCT, OTC, Oct, Oct., TCO, TOC, oct, oct-

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* cotu

### Etymology

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

### Noun

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)
* elbow

### Noun

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)
* an old measure, unit of length

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

From acotar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkot]
* Rhymes: -ot

#### Adjective

cot (feminine cota, masculine plural cots, feminine plural cotes)
* bowed, towards the ground
** 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:Reia i reia amb el cap cot, contenint-se a mitges.He laughed and laughed with his head down, half restraining himself.

### Etymology 2

From cota (“coat”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔt]
* Rhymes: -ɔt

#### Noun

cot m (plural cots)
* (historical) long robe or overcoat with sleeves, worn by men and women

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin quotus (“how much”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) unknown
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkot]

#### Noun

cot m (plural cots)
* (historical, Catalan law) monetary penalty imposed by some Andorran councils

### Etymology 4

Inherited from Latin cōs.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔt]
* Rhymes: -ɔt

#### Noun

cot m (plural cots)
* (obsolete) whetstone
    Synonym: pedra d'esmolar

#### Further reading

* “cot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cot m (plural cots)
* Alternative spelling of côt

## Istro-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin cubitum.

### Noun

cot n
* elbow

### References

* ↑ https://www.dex.ro/cot

## Megleno-Romanian
### Alternative forms

* cuot, cuăt

### Etymology

From Latin cubitum.

### Noun

cot n
* elbow

### References

* Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
* ↑ https://www.dex.ro/cot

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Compare Persian جفت (joft).

### Noun

cot ?
* pair

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* cott

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutan (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota.
However, compare Dutch and English hut, as well as Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), Scytho-Sarmatian *kuta, Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “chamber”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kot/

### Noun

cot n (nominative plural cotu)
* cottage

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* cote
* cotsæta

#### Descendants

* English: cot

### References

* ↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) “kuta”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 313-14

## Old French
### Noun

cot oblique singular, f (oblique plural coz or cotz, nominative singular cot, nominative plural coz or cotz)
* Alternative form of cotte

## Picard
### Etymology

From Latin cattus.

### Noun

cot m (plural cots)
* cat

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cubitum, probably through a later Vulgar Latin contracted form *cubtu, perhaps becoming *cout in earlier Romanian. Compare Aromanian cot, Spanish codo; cf. also Albanian kut. Doublet of the neological borrowing cubitus.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cot n (plural coate)
* elbow

#### Declension
### Noun

cot n (plural coturi)
* corner
* a bend of a river

#### Declension
### Noun

cot m (plural coți)
* old unit of length, approx. 2 feet

#### Derived terms

* coti
* cotări

## Romansch
### Noun

cot m (plural cots)
* (Rumantsch Grischun) rooster

## Tyap
### Alternative forms

* cod, chot, chod

### Etymology

From English church.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃɔd/

### Noun

cot (plural ncot)
* church

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* (North Wales) côt

### Etymology

From English coat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔt/
* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Noun

cot f (plural cotiau)
* (South Wales) coat

#### Derived terms

* cot law

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cot”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies