lot

lot

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English

Etymology

From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.

Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Frisian lot, Dutch lot, French lot, German Low German Lott, Middle High German luz. Doublet of lotto. Related also to German Los.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, Canada) enPR: lŏt, IPA(key): /lɒt/
  • (General American, dialectal in Canada) enPR: lät, IPA(key): /lɑt/
  • (Boston, Western Pennsylvania, Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /lɔt/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /lɔt/, /lɒt/
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

lot (plural lots)

  1. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
    Synonyms: load, mass, pile; see also Thesaurus:lot
  2. A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
    Synonyms: batch, collection, group, set
  3. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  5. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
    Synonyms: crowd, gang, group
  6. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
    Synonyms: allotment, parcel, plot
  7. That which happens without human design or forethought.
    Synonyms: chance, accident, destiny, fate, fortune; see also Thesaurus:fate
  9. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
  10. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
  11. A prize in a lottery.
    Synonym: prize
  12. Allotment; lottery.
    • 1990: Donald Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; CN 2239)
      Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
  13. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
  14. (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

lot (third-person singular simple present lots, present participle lotting, simple past and past participle lotted)

  1. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  2. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

Anagrams

  • LTO, OTL, tol, tol'

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *lā(i)ta, and adjective in *-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to pour”).

Noun

lot m (plural lot, definite loti, definite plural lotët)

  1. tear (from the eye)
    Gjak, djersë dhe lot — Blood, sweat and tears

Declension

Derived terms

  • losh
  • loc
  • loçkë
  • loke

References

Balinese

Romanization

lot

  1. Romanization of ᬮᭀᬢ᭄

Chinese

Alternative forms

  • log

Etymology

From English lot.

Pronunciation

Classifier

lot

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Classifier for large quantity of objects or people.
    一lot過／一lot过 [Cantonese]  ―  jat1 lot1 gwo3 [Jyutping]  ―  in a large batch
    • 為咗全力催谷最難賣嘅三房，就預留咗成LOT貨俾緻藍天回流客揀。 [Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.]
      为咗全力催谷最难卖嘅三房，就预留咗成LOT货俾致蓝天回流客拣。 [Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.]
      wai6 zo2 cyun4 lik6 ceoi1 guk1 zeoi3 naan4 maai6 ge3 saam1 fong4-2, zau6 jyu6 lau4 zo2 seng4 lot1 fo3 bei2 zi3 laam4 tin1 wui4 lau4 haak3 gaan2. [Jyutping]
      To encourage the sales of three-roomers, which are the most difficult to sell, [they] reserved an entire batch of products (flats) for customers who returned after [the sales of] Hemera.
    • 呢Lot貨造成咁實畀人嘈到甩褲喎 [Hong Kong Cantonese, trad.]
      呢Lot货造成咁实畀人嘈到甩裤㖞 [Hong Kong Cantonese, simp.]
      ni1 lot1 fo3 zou6 seng4 gam2 sat6 bei2 jan4 cou4 dou3 lat1 fu3 wo3 [Jyutping]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch and Old Dutch lot, from Frankish *hlot, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔt/
  • Hyphenation: lot
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

lot n (plural loten, diminutive lootje n or lotje n)

  1. destiny, fate, lot
  2. lottery ticket
  3. (archaic) lot, allotment (that which has been apportioned to a party)

Related terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: loot, lot
  • → Caribbean Javanese: lot
  • → Indonesian: lot
    • → Balinese: ᬮᭀᬢ᭄ (lot, “lottery”)
  • → Papiamentu: lòt, lot

Anagrams

  • tol

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French lot, from Old French loz, los, from Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with English lot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lo/
    • Homophones: lods, los, lots
  • (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA(key): /lɔ/
    • Homophone: lots

Noun

lot m (plural lots)

  1. share (of inheritance)
  2. plot (of land)
  3. batch (of goods for sale)
  4. lot (at auction)
  5. prize (in lottery)
  6. lot, fate
  7. (slang) babe

Derived terms

  • gros lot
  • lot de consolation
  • sortir du lot

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lot

  1. singular imperative of loten

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɔt]
  • Hyphenation: lot

Noun

lot (plural lot-lot)

  1. lot,
    1. (manufacturing) a separate portion; a number of things taken collectively
    2. (colloquial) lottery
      Synonyms: lotre, undian
    3. (finance) allotment

Descendants

  • → Balinese: ᬮᭀᬢ᭄ (lot, “lottery”)

Further reading

  • “lot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Noun

lot m (genitive singular as substantive loit, genitive as verbal noun loite, nominative plural loit)

  1. verbal noun of loit
  2. injury, impairment
  3. destruction, defacement, mutilation

Declension

As a substantive:

As a verbal noun:

Derived terms

  • lotamas

Verb

lot (present analytic lotann, future analytic lotfaidh, verbal noun lot, past participle lota)

  1. Alternative form of loit (“wound, destroy, spoil”)

Conjugation

Kamkata-viri

Alternative forms

  • lod (Western Kata-viri)

Etymology

Borrowed from Bactrian λαδο (lado, “law”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlot/

Noun

lot (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)

  1. peace
  2. settlement

Derived terms

  • alot (“unfair”) (Kamviri)
  • āmři lot (“peace settlement in adultery cases”) (Kamviri)
  • lader (“mediator”)
  • lot karōlë (“peacemaker”) (Kamviri)
  • palot je- (“to sit in arbitration”) (Kamviri)
  • špā lot (“law enacted by townsmen”) (Kamviri)

References

  • Jakob Halfmann (2023) Lād "law": a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom, page 1

Lombard

Alternative forms

  • lòtt (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔt/ (Milanese)

Noun

lot m

  1. lotus

Norman

Etymology

From Frankish *lot, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.

Noun

lot m (plural lots)

  1. (Guernsey) lot (at auction)

Northern Kurdish

Noun

lot ?

  1. jump

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lot

  1. simple past of la (Etymology 1)
  2. simple past of late

Old Javanese

Etymology

Doublet of lwat.

Adjective

lot

  1. persistent, untiring, tenacious, steadfast

Adverb

lot

  1. persistently, untiringly, tenaciously, steadfastly
  2. continuously

Derived terms

Further reading

  • "lot" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *letъ. By surface analysis, deverbal from lecieć. First attested in 1548–1551.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔt
  • Syllabification: lot

Noun

lot m inan

  1. flight (act of flying)
    Synonyms: latanie, fruwanie
  2. flight (instance of flying)
  3. flight (trip made by an aircraft)
  4. (Middle Polish) flight (fast movement)
  5. (Middle Polish) flight (fast spreading)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), lot is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 59 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 4 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 618th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

References

Further reading

  • lot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • lot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Renata Bronikowska (21.04.2016) “LOT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “lot”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “lot”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “lot”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 765

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lot/

Noun

lot n (plural loturi)

  1. plot (of land)
  2. batch (of goods for sale)
  3. lot (at auction)
  4. national sports team
  5. (dated) lottery ticket

Declension

References

  • “lot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish lott, from Proto-Celtic *lottô, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁ (“to cut off, separate, free”), see also Latin luō (“expiate, pay”), Sanskrit लून (lūna, “sever, cut forth, destroy, annihilate”), English loose, Old Armenian լուծանեմ (lucanem) and Albanian lirë. Stokes prefers a comparison with Proto-Germanic *lutōną (“to conceal, hide”), *lūtaną (“to bow down”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l̪ˠɔht̪/

Noun

lot m (genitive singular lota, plural lotan)

  1. sore, wound
  2. sting
  3. verbal noun of lot

Etymology 2

From Old Irish loittid, for further see Etymology 1.

Verb

lot (past lot, future lotaidh, verbal noun lot or lotadh)

  1. wound
  2. bruise
  3. hurt

Etymology 3

From English lot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɔht/ (with alveolar /t/, as it is an English borrowing)

Noun

lot f (genitive singular lota, plural lotaichean)

  1. (chiefly Lewis, Wester Ross) croft
  2. allotment, lot

References

Tatar

Noun

lot

  1. A unit of weight: 1 lot = 3 mısqal = 12.797 g (archaic) (see Tatar units of measurement#Mass)

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hlot, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą.

Noun

lot n (plural lotten, diminutive lotsje)

  1. lottery ticket
  2. fate, destiny

Further reading

  • “lot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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