aut

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

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

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

1. high

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Latin

Etymology

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) IPA^(key): /au̯t/, [au̯t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au̯t/, [au̯t̪]

Conjunction

aut

1. or (exclusive or)

   Marcus ludos videbit aut dormiet.

   Marcus will watch the games or sleep [but not both].

   Aut Caesar, aut nihil.

   All or nothing

   (literally, “Either Caesar or nothing”)

   Aut disce aut discede.

   Either learn or go away.

   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Tobiae 3:19:

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me

     And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man

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.

Descendants

• Aragonese: u
• Asturian: o
• Catalan: o
• Italian: o, od
• Ligurian: ò
• Occitan: o
• Old French: ou
  • French: ou
• Old Portuguese: ou
  • Galician: ou
  • Portuguese: ou
• Romanian: au
• Romansch: u
• Spanish: o, u
• → Esperanto: aŭ
• → Ido: od, 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^[1], 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

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Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ou-, 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]

(file)

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. (figurative, 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

	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
RENARRATIVE (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

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

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Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ʉd/

Verb

aut

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of mynet

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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

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Polish

Etymology

From English out.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awt/

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

Noun

aut

1. genitive plural of auto

Further reading

• aut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine singular 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