rot

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From Middle English rotten, roten, from Old English rotian (to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy), from Proto-Germanic *rutōnan (to rot), from Proto-Indo-European *reud- (to tear), from *reu- (to tear, dig, gather). Cognate with West Frisian rotsje (to rot), Dutch rotten (to rot), German rößen (to steep flax), Icelandic rotna (to rot). See rotten.

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

  1. to decay or decompose; to become bad

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rot (plural rots)

  1. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  2. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  3. Verbal nonsense.

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Latin ructus

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rot m. (plural rots)

  1. belcher

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rot (comparative rotter, superlative rotst)

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

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rot n. (plural rotten, diminutive rotje)

  1. rot, something rotten, something rotting
  2. (military) a file (of men)

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rot

  1. first-person singular present indicative of rotten.
  2. imperative of rotten.

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Latin ructus.

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rot m. (plural rots)

  1. (colloquial) belch, burp

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From Middle High German rōt (red, red-haired), from Old High German rōt (red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red), akin to Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood); from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from a Proto-Indo-European *reudʰ-.

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

  1. red
  2. red-haired (short for rothaarig)
  3. (politics) leftist; on the left of the political spectrum
  4. (politics, Germany) specifically, pertaining to the SPD (a large social democratic party in Germany) or Linke (a far-left political party in Germany)
  5. (historical, offensive) Indian (pertaining to the Native Americans)

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rot

  1. imperative of rote

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From Proto-Germanic *raudaz (compare Old English rēad, Old Norse rauðr), from Proto-Indo-European *reudh-.

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rōt

  1. red

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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.

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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.

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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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