knut

See also: Knut and knút

English

Etymology

An alteration of nut.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈnʌt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

knut (plural knuts)

1. (archaic, informal, Edwardian) An idle upper-class man about town.

   Synonyms: playboy, hedonist

   Oh Hades! the Ladies who leave their wooden huts,
   For Gilbert the Filbert, the colonel of the knuts...

Anagrams

• tunk

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

knut f or m (plural knutten, diminutive knutje n)

1. gnat

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Russian кну́т (knút).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈknut/
• Rhymes: -ut
• Hyphenation: knùt

Noun

knut m (invariable)

2. knout (kind of whip)

   Hypernym: frusta

Further reading

• knut in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• knut in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• knut in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knuter, definite plural knutene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by knute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

knut m (definite singular knuten, indefinite plural knutar, definite plural knutane)

1. alternative form of knute

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈknut/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: knut

Noun

knut m inan

1. knout (leather scourge used in imperial Russia)

   Synonyms: harap, nahajka

2. a strike or flogging with a knout

Declension

Declension of knut

	singular	plural
nominative	knut	knuty
genitive	knuta	knutów
dative	knutowi	knutom
accusative	knut	knuty
instrumental	knutem	knutami
locative	knucie	knutach
vocative	knucie	knuty

Derived terms

adjective

• knutowy

verb

• knutować

Further reading

• knut in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• knut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Knute.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knût/

Noun

knȕt m inan (Cyrillic spelling кну̏т)

1. knout

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Russian кну́т (knút).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡnut/ [ˈɡnut̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: knut

Noun

knut m (plural knut)

2. knout (kind of whip)

   Hypernym: látigo

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

en knut (skoknut) (sense 1)

en röd stuga med vita knutar [a red cottage with white corners] (sense 2)

Etymology

From Old Swedish knūter from Old Norse knútr, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (compare *knuttan-, whence English knot). Originally of corner joints of log cabins in (sense 2).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈknʉːt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʉːt

Noun

knut c

2. a knot (loop, of for example a piece of string)

   knyta en knut

   tie a knot

4. an exterior corner of a (wooden) building

   Synonym: husknut

   ett rött hus med vita knutar

   a red house with white corners

5. (in "inpå knutarna") very close to the house, on one's doorstep

   Vi har grannarna inpå knutarna

   Our neighbors' house is very close to ours ("we have our neighbors close to the corners of our house")

Usage notes

corner

In particular used of log cabins, but also generalized to small and medium-sized buildings.

Declension

Declension of knut

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	knut	knuts
	definite	knuten	knutens
plural	indefinite	knutar	knutars
	definite	knutarna	knutarnas

Hyponyms

• dubbelknut
• galgknut
• gordisk knut
• husknut
• löpknut
• strypknut

Derived terms

• brinna i knutarna

Related terms

• knyta

See also

• knop

References

• knut in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• knut in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• knut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)