aut

See also: Aut, AUT, áut, aut', and aut-

Translingual

Symbol

aut

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Austral.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Austral terms

Ao

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

aut

1. (Chungli) ash (remains after a fire)

Further reading

• Bruhn, Daniel (2010), “Unearthing the Roots: Ao and Proto-Tibeto-Burman — The Rimes”, in UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Report‎^[2], volume 6, number 6, University of California, Berkeley, →DOI, pages 241-242
• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 13
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 92

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯t]

Noun

aut

1. genitive plural of auto

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

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

1. 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^(key): [ˈau̯t]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈau̯t]

Conjunction

aut

1. or
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 3.16.4:

     nemo tribunos aut plebem timebat

     nobody 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.

2. either … or [aut (+ clause) ‘either (option 1)’ aut (+ clause) ‘or (option 2)’ etc.]

   Aut Caesar aut nihil. ― All or nothing. (literally, “Either a Caesar or nothing.”)

   Aut disce aut discēde. ― Either learn or leave.

3. otherwise … or else [imperative clause ‘command’ aut (+ clause) ‘or else (consequence for not complying)’]

   Accipe nummōs nōnāgintā — aut nūllōs!

   Accept 90 coins — or nothing!

4. Introduces a correction to the previous words or an afterthought remark.

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: a
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Romanian: au
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: o
  • Italian: o, od
    • →? Sardinian: o
  • Neapolitan: o
  • Sicilian: o
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: o
  • Ladin: o
  • Romansch: u
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: ò
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: ou
  • Old French: ou
    • French: ou
    • Norman: ou
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: o
  • Occitan: o
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: u
  • Asturian: o, u
  • Extremaduran: o
  • Mozarabic: או (ʔw)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: ou
    • Fala: o
    • Galician: ou
    • Portuguese: ou
  • Old Spanish: o, ho
    • Ladino: o, u / או
    • 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)
      • → Tagalog: o
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: aŭ
  • → Ido: od, o
  • → Interlingua: 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^[3], 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

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^(key): [àwt]
• Audio (LV):

  Audio:

  (file)

Verb

aut (transitive, 1st conjugation, present 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

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").

Conjugation

Conjugation of aut (1st)

	indicative (īstenības izteiksme)					imperative (pavēles izteiksme)
		present (tagadne)	past (pagātne)		future (nākotne)
1st person sg	es	auju, aunu	āvu		aušu	—
2nd person sg	tu	auj, aun	āvi		ausi	auj
3rd person sg	viņš, viņa	auj, aun	āva		aus	lai auj, aun
1st person pl	mēs	aujam, aunam	āvām		ausim	ausim
2nd person pl	jūs	aujat, aunat	āvāt		ausiet, ausit	aujiet
3rd person pl	viņi, viņas	auj, aun	āva		aus	lai auj, aun
renarrative (atstāstījuma izteiksme)				participles (divdabji)
present	aujot			present active 1 (adj.)		aujošs
past	esot āvis			present active 2 (adv.)		audams
future	aušot			present active 3 (adv.)		aujot
imperative	lai aujot			present active 4 (obj.)		aujam
conditional (vēlējuma izteiksme)				past active		āvis
present	autu			present passive		aujams
past	būtu āvis			past passive		auts
debitive (vajadzības izteiksme)				nominal forms
indicative	(būt) jāauj			infinitive (nenoteiksme)		aut
conjunctive 1	esot jāauj			negative infinitive		neaut
conjunctive 2	jāaujot			verbal noun		aušana

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^(key): /ˈa.ʉd/

Verb

aut

1. 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)

1. (Provençal) high

   Antonym: bas

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈawt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -awt
• Syllabification: aut

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English out (which see for further etymology). Doublet of wy- (via Proto-Indo-European).

Noun

aut m inan

1. (sports) touch (the part of a field beyond the touchlines or goal lines)
2. (sports) the situation when the ball goes into touch

Declension

Declension of aut

	singular	plural
nominative	aut	auty
genitive	autu	autów
dative	autowi	autom
accusative	aut	auty
instrumental	autem	autami
locative	aucie	autach
vocative	aucie	auty

Derived terms

adjective

• autowy

verbs

• autować impf
• wyautować pf

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

aut

1. 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)

1. (soccer) ball out of play

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	aut	autul		auturi	auturile
genitive-dative	aut	autului		auturi	auturilor
vocative	autule			auturilor

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)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) high

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English out.

Noun

aut m inan (Cyrillic spelling аут)

1. (sports) sideline marking the edge of a playing field or court, out of bounds line, touchline
2. (sports) area outside the playing field; touch
3. (basketball) an instance of a player stepping out of bounds or a ball touching a player while out of bounds
4. (sports) a throw that puts the ball into play from the sidelines after it has gone out of bounds; throw-in