cot

See also: cót, côt, cöt, cốt, çot, and cǫt

Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

cot

(trigonometry) cotangent

Usage notes[edit]

The symbol cot is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard, which explicitly deprecates the older symbol ctg.

Synonyms[edit]

cotan
cotg
ctg
ctn (obsolete)

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK, General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): /kɒt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [kʰɒʔ(t)]
- (General Australian) IPA^(key): [kʰɔt], [kʰɔʔ]
  - Audio (Australian) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /kɑt/
- (General American) IPA^(key): [kʰɑt̚], [kʰɑʔ]
  - Audio (US) (file)
- (Boston) IPA^(key): [kʰɒːt̚]
- (Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): [kʰat̚], [kʰaʔ]
  - Audio (US-Inland North) (file)
(Indian English) IPA^(key): [kɔt], [kɔʈ]
Homophones: caught (accents with cot–caught merger), court (non-rhotic accents with cot–caught merger and horse–hoarse merger)
Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

Noun[edit]

cot (plural cots)

(Canada, US) A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.
Synonym: camp bed
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.
Synonym: crib
(nautical, historical) A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

folding bed — see camp bed

portable or temporary bed

Bulgarian: похо́дно легло́ n (pohódno legló)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: lehátko n
Finnish: varavuode; heteka (fi), pukkisänky (specific types); lisävuode (fi) (hotel); kenttävuode (military)
French: lit de camp (fr) m
German: Feldbett (de) n
Hebrew: מִטַּת שָׂדֶה‎ f (mitat sadeh)
Italian: branda (it)
Latin: grabātus m
Portuguese: catre (pt) m
Russian: ко́йка (ru) f (kójka), раскладу́шка (ru) f (raskladúška) (folding bed)
Spanish: camilla (es) f, catre (es) m
Volapük: flegülabed
Yiddish: באַנקבעטל‎ n (bankbetl)

nautical:wooden bed frame

Bulgarian: ко́йка f (kójka)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: riippusänky
Hebrew: עַרְסָלָה‎ (he) f (arsalah)
Russian: ко́йка (ru) f (kójka), подвесна́я посте́ль f (podvesnája postélʹ) (suspense bed)
Yiddish: באַנקבעטל‎ n (bankbetl)

bed for children

Bulgarian: де́тско крева́тче n (détsko krevátče)
Catalan: bressol (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 嬰兒床／婴儿床 (zh) (yīng'érchuáng), 娃娃床 (wáwachuáng), 兒童床／儿童床 (értóngchuáng), 小床 (xiǎochuáng)
Czech: postýlka (cs) f
Dutch: kinderbed (nl), ledikantje (nl) m, wieg (nl) m
Finnish: lastensänky, vauvasänky; pinnasänky (fi)
French: lit de bébé m, huche (fr) f
German: Kinderbett (de) n
Greek: κούνια (el) f (koúnia)
Italian: greppia (it) f, presepe (it) m, lettino m, culla (it) f
Japanese: ベビーベッド (bebībeddo)
Korean: 어린이 침대 (eorini chimdae)
Norwegian: barneseng, sprinkelseng
Portuguese: berço (pt) m
Russian: де́тская крова́тка f (détskaja krovátka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: креветац m, дечји креветац m, дјечји креветац m

Roman: krevetac (sh) m, dečji krevetac m, dječji krevetac m
Spanish: cuna (es) f, pesebre (es) m
Ukrainian: дитя́че лі́жечко n (dytjáče lížečko)
Welsh: preseb, cot (cy) m, cotiau (cy) m pl

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Norman: ^{(please verify)} canichot m (Jersey)
Spanish: ^{(please verify)} catre (es) m, ^{(please verify)} cama plegable f

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English cot, cote, from Old English cot and cote (“cot, cottage”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutǭ (compare Old Norse kot, Middle High German kūz (“execution pit”)), from Scythian (compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀‎ (kata, “chamber”)). Cognate to Dutch kot (“student room; small homestead”). Doublet of cote; more distantly related to cottage.

Noun[edit]

cot (plural cots)

(archaic) A cottage or small homestead.
- 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […], →OCLC:
  the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm
- 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
  One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.
- 1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem).
  Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban
A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.
Synonym: cote

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

homestead

Bulgarian: коли́ба (bg) f (kolíba)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小屋 (zh) (xiǎowū)
Finnish: mökki (fi)
Italian: casolare (it), capanna (it) f, casupola (it) f
Japanese: 小屋 (ja) (こや, koya)
Manx: cott
Portuguese: casebre (pt) m
Russian: уса́дьба (ru) f (usádʹba), хи́жина (ru) f (xížina) (hut), лачу́га (ru) f (lačúga) (hut)

cover or sheath

Finnish: tuppi (fi) (sheath); sormituppi (sheath for sore finger)
Italian: stalla (it) f, stabbio (it) m, riparo (it) m, capanna (it) f

finger cover to prevent static discharge

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: sormustin (fi)
Italian: ditale (it) m
Russian: please add this translation if you can

Etymology 3[edit]

From Irish cot, coit (“small boat”), from Proto-Celtic *quontio, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s (“path, road”), related to Gaulish and Latin ponto. Compare the first element of catboat, which could be a borrowing.^[1]

Noun[edit]

cot (plural cots)

A small, crudely-formed boat.

Etymology 4[edit]

From dialectal cot, cote, partly from Middle English cot (“matted wool”), from Old English *cot, *cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô (“woolen fabric, wool covering”); and partly from Middle English cot, cote (“tunic, coat”), from Old French cote, from the same Germanic source (see English coat). Possibly influenced by English cotton.

Alternative forms[edit]

cote (dialectal)

Noun[edit]

cot (plural cots)

A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.
a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)

a cot for a sore finger

Etymology 5[edit]

Contraction of cot-quean.

Noun[edit]

cot (plural cots)

(obsolete) A man who does household work normally associated with women.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 347:
  You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

References[edit]

^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “coit”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 96

Anagrams[edit]

CTO, OCT, OTC, Oct, Oct., TCO, TOC, oct, oct-

Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

cotu

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cubitum. Compare Daco-Romanian cot.

Noun[edit]

cot n (plural coati or coate or coturi)

elbow

Noun[edit]

cot m (plural cots or coate or coati)

an old measure, unit of length