aut

Ladin

Adjective

aut m (plural auc, feminine auta, feminine plural autes)

1. high

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Latin

Conjunction

aut

1. or

   Marcus ludos videbit aut dormiet.

   Marcus will watch the games or sleep.

   Aut Caesar, aut nihil.

   Either Caesar or nothing (figuratively: all or nothing)

   Aut disce aut discede.

   Either learn or go away.

Usage notes

• This word is used in pairs (aut ... aut) to mean "either....or".
• Unlike vel, this word implies an exclusive "or"; i.e., one option or the other, but not both.
  (see similiar distinction in Polish: "albo" and "lub")

Descendants

• Asturian: o
• Catalan: o
• Esperanto: aŭ
• French: ou
• Galician: ou

• Italian: o
• Portuguese: ou
• Romanian: au
• Romansch: u
• Spanish: o/u

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Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *aw-, from Proto-Indo-European *ew-, *ow- “to tie, to bind” > “to put on, to dress”. The original meaning was probably “to tie, to wrap (around the foot)”, whence “to put on (footwear)”. Cognates include Lithuanian aũti, Old Church Slavonic обути (obuti) (< *uti), Russian обуть (obút’), Belarusian абуць (abúc’), Ukrainian обути (obúty), Bulgarian обуя (obúja), Czech obouti, Polish obuć, Latin exuere (“to take off”) (< *ex-u-ere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [àwt]

Verb

aut tr., 1st conj., pres. aunu, aun, aun / auju, auj, auj, past āvu

1. 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)

2. 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

3. (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

Conjugation

conjugation of aut

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)
1st pers. sg.	es	aunu, auju	āvu	aušu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	aun, auj	āvi	ausi	aun
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	aun, auj	āva	aus	lai aun, auj
1st pers. pl.	mēs	aunam, aujam	āvām	ausim	ausim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	aunat, aujat	āvāt	ausiet, ausit	auniet
3rd pers. pl.	viņi, viņas	aun, auj	āva	aus	lai aun, auj
CONJUNCTIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme)			PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present	aunot		Present Active 1 (Adj.)		aunošs
Past	esot āvis		Present Active 2 (Adv.)		audams
Future	aušot		Present Active 3 (Adv.)		aunot
Imperative	lai aunot		Present Active 4 (Obj.)		aunam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme)			Past Active		āvis
Present	autu		Present Passive		aunams
Past	būtu āvis		Past Passive		auts
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme)			NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative	(būt) jāaun		Infinitive (nenoteiksme)		aut
Conjunctive 1	esot jāaun		Negative Infinitive		neaut
Conjunctive 2	jāaunot		Verbal noun		aušana

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

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine auta, masculine plural auts, feminine plural autas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) high

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English out.

Noun

aut m (Cyrillic spelling аут)

1. (sports) area outside the playground borders