aut

See also: AUT, Aut, aut', 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 Ancient Greek αὖ (aû), αὖτε (aûte), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (auths). Confer with Latin autem, Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós), αὐτάρ (autár).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au̯t/

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.

   Either Caesar or nothing (figuratively: all or nothing)

   Aut disce aut discede.

   Either learn or go away.

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 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

• Asturian: o
• Catalan: o
• Esperanto: aŭ
• French: ou
• Galician: ou
• Ido: o, od

• Italian: o, od
• Portuguese: ou
• Romanian: au
• Romansch: u
• Spanish: o, u

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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
    
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press

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Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?], from Proto-Balto-Slavic *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]

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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
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

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
• aukla

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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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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