rot

From Middle English rotten, roten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-Germanic *rutōną (“to rot”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear”). Cognate with West Frisian rotsje (“to rot”), Dutch rotten (“to rot”), German verrotten (“to rot”) and regional rößen (“to steep flax”), Icelandic rotna (“to rot”). See rotten.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɹɑt]

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• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɹɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

rot (third-person singular simple present rots, present participle rotting, simple past and past participle rotted)

1. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

2. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
4. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

   to rot vegetable fiber

5. (intransitive, figuratively) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).

   to rot in prison

   to rot in Hell

   • (Can we date this quote?) Macaulay

     Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Thackeray

     Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.

6. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

• putrefy

• brown rot
• potter's rot

rot (countable and uncountable, plural rots)

1. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
2. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

3. Verbal nonsense.

• (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense

• ORT, OTR, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, ort, tor

From Dutch rot, dialectal form of rat.

rot (plural rotte)

1. rat

• muis

• rout, ruat, ròt, röts

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Cognate with German rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.

rot

1. (Formazza) red

• “rot” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Latin ructus.

rot m (plural rots)

1. belch

• rotar

• “rot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /rɔt/
• Rhymes: -ɔt

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rot (comparative rotter, superlative rotst)

1. rotten, spoiled, decayed, putrid
2. rotten, tedious, unkind, mean

rot n (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)

1. rot, something rotten, something rotting

From Middle Dutch rotte.

rot f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)

1. (dialectal, Northern) Alternative form of rat.

• oude rot
• landrot

From Middle Dutch rote.

rot n or f (plural rotten, diminutive rotje n)

1. (military) a file (of men)
2. (obsolete) multitude, band, throng

   Synonyms: drom, massa, menigte, schare

• tor

From Latin ructus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁo/
• Homophones: rhô, ros, rôt

rot m (plural rots)

1. (colloquial) belch, burp

• renvoi

• roter

• “rot” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin ruptus.

rot (feminine rote)

1. broken

• rote

• rompi
• roture

• roth (obsolete)

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-. Compare Low German root, rod, rot, Dutch rood, English red, West Frisian read, Danish rød.

• IPA^(key): /roːt/, [ʁoːt(ʰ)], [roːt]

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• Rhymes: -oːt

rot (comparative röter or roter, superlative am rötesten or am rotesten)

1. red (colour)
2. (politics) red; pertaining to Marxism in the widest sense; social democratic; socialist; communist
   1. (politics, Germany, in particular) pertaining to the social democratic SPD or the more rigidly socialist Linke
3. (possibly mildly offensive) red-haired
4. (historical, possibly offensive) redskin; Native American; Indian

• (red-haired): rothaarig
• (redskin): rothäutig

• Rot

• rot in Duden online

rot

1. Alternative spelling of root

• IPA^(key): /rɔːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːt

rot n (genitive singular rots, no plural)

1. unconsciousness, insensibility

• rota

rot n (genitive singular rots, nominative plural rot)

1. rot, decay, putrefaction

• rotna
• rotinn
• rota

From Late Old English rōt.

rot

1. Alternative form of rote (“root”)

From Old English rotian.

rot

1. Alternative form of roten (“to rot”)

A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).

• rote, root, rotte, rott

• IPA^(key): /rɔt/, /rɔːt/

rot (uncountable)

1. Rotting or decomposition; the situation where something rots.
2. Any disease which causes decaying and decomposition in humans.
3. A disease that afflicts sheep; footrot, the rot.

• English: rot

• “rō̆t (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-24.

From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

rot m or f (definite singular rota or roten, indefinite plural røtter, definite plural røttene)

1. root (part of a plant normally below ground level)
2. root (of a tooth)
3. root (of a hair)

rot

1. imperative of rote

• “rot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ruːt/

From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Akin to English root.

rot f (definite singular rota, indefinite plural røter, definite plural røtene)

1. root (of a plant)
2. root (of a tooth)
3. root (of a hair)

• gulrot
• kvadratrot
• kålrot
• rotfrukt

From Old Norse rót

rot n (definite singular rotet, uncountable)

1. a mess, untidiness, chaos

   Det er for mykje rot på loftet. Me må rydda.

   The attic is a mess. We have to tidy it up.

   Når me prøver å samarbeida med dei, blir det berre rot.

   When we try working with them, it just turns into chaos.

• “rot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *raudaz.

rōt

1. red

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• Middle Dutch: rôot
  • Dutch: rood

• “rōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ-.

rōt

1. red

• Middle High German: rōt
  • Alemannic German:

    Italian Walser: rot, rout, ròt, röts

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: rod

  • German: rot
  • Luxembourgish: rout
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: rot

  • Vilamovian: rut
  • Yiddish: רויט‎ (royt)

From Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts.

rōt f

1. root

• Swedish: rot

From Old High German rōt, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz. Compare German rot, Dutch rood, English red.

rot

1. red

From Old Swedish rōt, from Old Norse rót, from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

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rot c

1. root; the part of a plant under the surface.
2. the part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
3. source; an underlying cause

   Kärleken till pengar är roten till allt ont.

   The love of money is the root of all evil.

4. (mathematics) of a number n, a positive number which, when raised to a specified power, yields n; the square root is understood if no power is specified

   Kubikroten ur 27 är 3.

   The cube root of 27 is 3.

   Multiplicera med roten ur 2.

   Multiply by root 2.

5. (mathematics) a zero (of a function).
6. (mathematics) a designated node in a tree.
7. (mathematics) curl; a measure on how fast a vector field rotates: it can be described as the cross product of del and a given vectorial field
8. (computing) root directory
9. (philology) a word from which another word is derived.

• källa (3)
• nollställe (5)

• ört

• rötter
• rota (sig)

From English road.

rot

1. road, street
   • '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:

     Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.

     Many little roads exist on this island.

Tok Pisin texts: from the beginning to the present / edited by Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton, Suzanne Romaine. / John Benjamins Publishing Company / Copyright 2003 / ISBN 90 272 4718 8 / page 106

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rōt f (plural rota)

1. installment (a kind of payment)