# aut
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈau̯t]

### Noun

aut
* genitive plural of auto

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin altus.

### Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auc, feminine plural autes)
* high

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *auti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewti (“on the other hand”), from *h₂ew. Cognate with autem, Ancient Greek αὖ (aû), αὖτε (aûte), αὐτός (autós), αὐτάρ (autár).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /au̯t/, [äu̯t̪]

### Conjunction

aut
* or
    Aut Caesar aut nihil. ― All or nothing. (literally, “Either a Caesar or a nothing.”)
    Aut disce aut discēde. ― Either you learn, or go away.
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 3.16.4:nemo tribunos aut plebem timebatnobody feared the tribunes or the plebs
** 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Tobiae.3.19: […] et aut ego indigna fuī illīs aut illī mihi forsitan dignī nōn fuērunt. […] and either I was unworthy for them, or they perhaps were not worthy for me.
* otherwise, or else (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false)
    Accipe nummōs nōnāgintā — aut nūllōs!Take 90 sesterces — or none at all!
* Introduces a correction to the previous words or an afterthought remark.

#### Usage notes

* (or): Equivalent to “either … or” when placed before each coordinated element (“aut … aut”).

#### Descendants

* Aragonese: u
* Asturian: o
* Catalan: o
* Franco-Provençal: ou
* Italian: o, od (used optionally before words beginning with a vowel)
** → Sardinian: o
* Ligurian: ò
* Mozarabic: או (ʔw)
* Occitan: o
* Old French: ou
** French: ou
* Old Galician-Portuguese: ou
** Galician: ou
** Portuguese: ou
* Romanian: au
* Romansch: u
* Sardinian: a
* Spanish: o, u (used before words beginning with an ‘o’ sound), ò (archaic), ó (obsolete, used near numbers to avoid confusion with a zero: 2 ó 3)
* → Esperanto: aŭ
* → Ido: od, o

### References

* “aut”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “aut”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* aut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia
* Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
* ↑ Oerberg, Hans H. (2011) Lingua Latina per se illustrata. Pars I, Familia Romana‎, Newburyport, MA, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *áutei, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ew-. Cognates include Lithuanian aũti, Proto-Slavic *uti (“to put on”) (> *jьzuti, *obuti), Hittite [script needed] (unu-, “to adorn, decorate, lay (the table)”), Latin *uō (“to put on”) (> exuō, induō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [àwt]
* Audio (LV): Audio:(file)

### Verb

aut (transitive, 1st conjugation, present aunu, aun, aun / auju, auj, auj, past āvu)
* put on footwear (shoes, boots, socks, etc.)
    zēns āva kājas ― the boy put on footwear (lit. on his feet)
    aut kājas pastalās ― to put on pastalas (simple footwear) (lit. to put one's feet into pastalas)
    aut kurpes kājas ― to put on shoes (lit. to put shoes on one's feet)
* nosēdos uz akmens un gribēju aut kājas, bet kurpes bija ļoti sabristas — I sat down on a rock and wanted to put shoes on (lit. to put (my) feet (into shoes)), but the shoes were very wet
    Žanis āva kājās stulmeņu zābakus ― Žanis put the long boots on (his) feet
* (figuratively, with kājas) to prepare for a journey (lit. to put on footwear)
    un tūliņ ķēniņš aun kājas savu sievu meklēt ― and quickly the king puts on footwear to go looking for his wife

#### Usage notes

Note that aut can take two complements, the footwear or the subject's feet. Either can be the direct object, in which case the other will be a locative complement (i.e., either "to put shoes on one's feet" or "to put one's feet into shoes").

#### Synonyms

* tērpt
* vilkt

#### Derived terms

    prefixed verbs:
* apaut
* ataut
* ieaut
* izaut
* noaut
* paaut
* pāraut
* saaut
* uzaut
    other derived terms:
* auties

#### Related terms

* apavs
* aukla

### References

* Derksen, Rick (2015) “auti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 73

## Middle Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ʉd/

### Verb

aut
* second-person singular imperfect indicative of mynet

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* naut

### Etymology

From Latin altus.

### Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auts, feminine plural autas)
* (Provençal) high
    Antonym: bas

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈawt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -awt
* Syllabification: aut

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English out, from Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt; and Old English ūte, from Proto-Germanic *ūtai, from Proto-Indo-European *úd. Doublet of wy-.

#### Noun

aut m inan
* (sports) touch (the part of a field beyond the touchlines or goal lines)
* (sports) the situation when the ball goes into touch

##### Derived terms

* autowy
* autować impf
* wyautować pf

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

aut
* genitive plural of auto

### Further reading

* aut in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* aut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English out.

### Noun

aut n (plural auturi)
* (soccer) ball out of play

#### Declension
## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* ault (Sursilvan)
* òlt (Sutsilvan)
* ot (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin altus.

### Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auts, feminine plural autas)
* (Rumantsch Grischun) high

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From English out.

### Noun

aut m (Cyrillic spelling аут)
* (sports) sideline marking the edge of a playing field or court, out of bounds line, touchline
* (sports) area outside the playing field; touch
* (basketball) an instance of a player stepping out of bounds or a ball touching a player while out of bounds
* (sports) a throw that puts the ball into play from the sidelines after it has gone out of bounds; throw-in