coat

English

Navy pea coat

Alternative forms

• cote (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cote, coate, cotte, from Old French cote, cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta (“undercoat, tunic”), from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷewd-, *gud- (“woolen clothes”).

Cognate with Old High German kozza, kozzo (“woolen coat”) (German Kotze (“coarse woolen blanket; woolen cape”)), Middle Low German kot (“coat”), Ancient Greek βεῦδος (beûdos, “woman's attire”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Noun

coat (countable and uncountable, plural coats)

1. (countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.^Wp
   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

2. (countable) A covering of material, such as paint.^Wp
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.

3. (countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.^Wp

   When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.

4. (uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
5. (obsolete) A petticoat.
   • 1693, [John Locke], “§148”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:

     a child in coats

6. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn

     Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, A Lover's Compaint

     She was sought by spirits of richest coat.

7. A coat of arms.^Wp
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:

     Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat.

8. A coat card.
   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

Derived terms

• buffy coat
• coathook, coat hook
• coat of arms
• covert-coat
• ducking coat
• feathercoat
• greatcoat
• overcoat

 

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: koto
• (South Wales) Welsh: cot
• (North Wales) Welsh: côt

Translations

outer garment covering the upper torso and arms

• Albanian: pallto (sq) f
• Alutiiq: paltuuk
• Arabic: مِعْطَف‎ (ar) m (miʿṭaf)
• Armenian: վերարկու (hy) (verarku), պալտո (hy) (palto)
• Azerbaijani: palto (az)
• Belarusian: паліто́ n (palitó), пальто́ n (palʹtó), пінжа́к m (pinžák) (jacket)
• Bengali: কোট (koṭ)
• Bulgarian: сако́ (bg) n (sakó), жаке́т (bg) m (žakét), пардесю́ (bg) n (pardesjú), палто́ (bg) n (paltó)
• Burmese: အင်္ကျီ (my) (angkyi), လောင်းကုတ်အင်္ကျီ (my) (laung:kut-angkyi), ကုတ် (my) (kut)
• Catalan: abric (ca) m, casaca (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎦᏌᎴᎾ (gasalena)
• Chichewa: khothi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 褸, 褛 (lau¹)

  Mandarin: 外衣 (zh) (wàiyī), 大衣 (zh) (dàyī), 外套 (zh) (wàitào)

• Cornish: kota m, mantel f
• Czech: kabát (cs) m, plášť (cs) m
• Danish: frakke c
• Dutch: mantel (nl) m, jas (nl) m
• Esperanto: jako (eo), (portata eksterdome, vintre aŭ ĝenerale en malvarma vetero) palto
• Estonian: mantel (et)
• Faroese: frakki m
• Finnish: takki (fi)
• French: manteau (fr) m, paletot (fr) m, pardessus (fr) m
• Georgian: პალტო (ṗalṭo), ქურქი (kurki), პიჯაკი (ṗiǯaḳi), ქურთუკი (kurtuḳi)
• German: Mantel (de) m
• Greek: πανωφόρι (el) n (panofóri), παλτό (el) n (paltó)

  Ancient: ἀρνακίς f (arnakís), ῥῆνιξ f (rhênix)

• Hebrew: מְעִיל‎ (he) m (m'íl)
• Hindi: कोट (hi) m (koṭ)
• Hungarian: kabát (hu)
• Icelandic: jakki (is) m, frakki (is) m
• Indonesian: mantel (id)
• Irish: cóta m, casóg f
• Italian: mantello (it) m, cappotto (it) m, casacca (it) f, giacca (it) f, giubba (it) f
• Japanese: コート (kōto), 外套 (ja) (がいとう, gaitō)
• Kazakh: пальто (palʹto)
• Khmer: អាវធំ (ʼaaw thom)
• Korean: 코트 (ko) (koteu), 외투(外套) (ko) (oetu)
• Kyrgyz: пальто (palʹto)
• Lao: ເສຶ້ອໃຫຍ່ (sưa nyai)

• Latgalian: svuorks, kuļuks, biņdzjuks, sveita
• Latin: laena f
• Latvian: mētelis m, svārki m pl
• Lithuanian: paltas m
• Luhya: kumuchosi
• Lutshootseed: kəpu
• Macedonian: капут m (kaput)
• Malay: kot (ms)
• Manx: cooat m
• Maori: koti
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: пальто (mn) (palito)

• Navajo: éétsoh
• Norman: câsaque f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frakk (no) m

  Nynorsk: frakk m

• Persian: پالتو‎ (fa) (pâlto), کت‎ (fa) (kot)
• Plautdietsch: Waums n, Jak f
• Polish: płaszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: casaco (pt) m, agasalho (pt)
• Russian: пальто́ (ru) n (palʹtó), пиджа́к (ru) m (pidžák) (jacket)
• Scottish Gaelic: còta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀пӯт m

  Roman: kàpūt (sh) m

• Slovak: kabát m, plášť m
• Slovene: plašč (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: płašć m

• Spanish: abrigo (es) m, saco (es) m, casaca (es) f
• Swahili: koti (sw)
• Swedish: rock (sv) c
• Tajik: палто (palto)
• Taos: kùti’ína
• Thai: เสื้อนอก (sʉ̂ʉa-nɔ̂ɔk), เสื้อโค้ท
• Tibetan: ཀོར (kor), ཕྱུ་པ (phyu pa)
• Turkish: palto (tr)
• Turkmen: palto
• Ukrainian: пальто́ (uk) n (palʹtó), піджа́к (pidžák) (jacket)
• Urdu: کوٹ‎ m (koṭ)
• Uyghur: پەلتو‎ (pelto)
• Uzbek: palʼto, palto (uz)
• Vietnamese: áo bành tô, áo khoác
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: (South Wales) cot (cy) f, (North Wales) côt f
• Winnebago: woonąžįxete
• Yiddish: מאַנטל‎ m (mantl)

covering of material, such as paint

• Bulgarian: покри́тие n (pokrítie)
• Catalan: cobertura f
• Czech: nátěr m
• Danish: lag (da) n
• Dutch: laag (nl) f
• Esperanto: tavolo (eo), tegaĵo
• Finnish: pinta (fi), pinnoite (fi)
• French: couche (fr) f
• German: Beschichtung (de) f
• Greek: επικάλυμμα (el) n (epikálymma), (paint) στρώση (el) f (strósi), επίχρισμα (el) n (epíchrisma)
• Ido: induto (io), induturo (io)

• Irish: brat m, cóta m
• Italian: rivestimento (it) m
• Japanese: 塗装 (ja) (とそう, tosō), コーティング (kōtingu)
• Macedonian: слој m (sloj)
• Malay: lapisan (ms)
• Polish: warstwa (pl) f
• Portuguese: cobertura (pt) f, mão (pt) f, demão (pt) f
• Russian: слой (ru) m (sloj)
• Spanish: cubierta (es) f
• Swahili: koti (sw)
• Swedish: lager (sv), täcklager, hölje (sv), täcke (sv)
• Welsh: (South Wales) cot (cy) f, (North Wales) côt f

fur or feathers

• Danish: pels (da) c (fur), fjerdragt c (feathers), dragt c
• Finnish: turkki (fi) (fur), höyhenpuku (fi) (feathers)
• Greek: τρίχωμα (el) n (tríchoma), γούνα (el) f (goúna), (feathers) φτέρωμα (el) n (ftéroma)
• Hungarian: bunda (hu)
• Irish: clúmh m
• Japanese: 毛皮 (けがわ, kegawa), 羽毛 (ja) (うもう, umō)
• Latin: pellis f
• Macedonian: крзно n (krzno) (fur), пердуви m (perduvi) (feathers)

• Polish: sierść (pl) f
• Portuguese: pelagem (pt) f, pelo (pt) m
• Russian: шкура (ru) f (škura)
• Spanish: pelaje (es) m
• Swahili: koti (sw)
• Swedish: hårbeklädnad, päls (sv), fjäderdräkt (sv)
• Tibetan: སྤུ (spu), བལ (bal) (sheep)
• Welsh: (South Wales) cot (cy) f, (North Wales) côt f

canvas secured around mast

• Finnish: takki (fi)

• Swahili: koti (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} haină (ro) f, ^{(please verify)} manta (ro) f

Verb

coat (third-person singular simple present coats, present participle coating, simple past and past participle coated)

1. (transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.

   The frying pan was coated with a layer of non-stick material, making it easier to wash.

   • 2021 January 13, “Fleet News: Final Avanti West Coast Super Voyager refurbished”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 23:

     Door grab handles have been coated with an anti-microbial finish.

2. (transitive) To cover like a coat.
3. (transitive, archaic) To clothe.

Translations

to cover with a coat of some material

• Bulgarian: намазвам (bg) (namazvam), покривам (bg) (pokrivam)
• Catalan: cobrir (ca)
• Dutch: bekleden (nl), coaten (nl)
• Esperanto: tegi (eo)
• Finnish: päällystää (fi)
• French: couvrir (fr), revêtir (fr)
• German: beschichten (de)
• Greek: σκεπάζω (el) (skepázo)
• Italian: rivestire (it), incappottare (it)

• Macedonian: обложува (obložuva), покрива (pokriva)
• Polish: pokrywać (pl), pokryć (pl)
• Portuguese: revestir (pt)
• Russian: покрыва́ть (ru) (pokryvátʹ)
• Spanish: cubrir (es)
• Swahili: koti (sw)
• Swedish: täcka (sv), belägga (sv)
• Turkish: kaplamak (tr), kaban (tr)
• Vietnamese: phết (vi), phủ (vi), trét (vi)

to cover as a coat

• Finnish: peittää (fi)
• Greek: καλύπτω (el) (kalýpto)

• Swahili: koti (sw)
• Swedish: täcka (sv)

Anagrams

• ATOC, CATO, Cato, Cota, TACO, octa, octa-, taco

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Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *koːwa-. Compare Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈku(w)at/
• (Witzapan) IPA^(key): /ˈɡu(w)at/
• (Tacuba) IPA^(key): /ˈkʷat/

Noun

coat (plural cohcoat)

1. snake

   Cuaconi peuhqui ne coat mocuehcueloa

   Then the snake started to curl up

Derived terms

• acoat (“eel”)
• mazacoat (“boa constrictor”)
• yolcoat (“tapeworm”)