loot
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch loet, loete ("scoop, shovel, scraper"; > Modern Dutch loet), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch *lōta, from Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "frk" is not valid. See WT:LOL. *lōtija (“scoop, ladle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō (“ladle”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay down, deposit, overlay”). Cognate with Scots lute, luyt (“scoop, ladle”), West Frisian loete, lete, Middle Low German lōte (“rake”), French louche ("ladle"; < Germanic). Related to lade, ladle.
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Noun
loot (plural loots)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A kind of scoop or ladle, chiefly used to remove the scum from brine-pans in saltworks.
Etymology 2
Attested 1788, a loan from Hindustani लूट (lūṭ)/لوٹ (lūṭ, “spoil, booty”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The verb is from 1842. Fallows (1885) records both the noun and the verb as "Recent. Anglo-Indian".
In origin only applicable to plundering in warfare.
A figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.
Noun
loot (uncountable)
- The act of plundering.
- the loot of an ancient city
- plunder, booty, especially from a ransacked city.
- (colloquial, US) any prize or profit received for free, especially Christmas presents
- 1956 "Free Loot for Children" (LIFE Magazine, 23 April 1956, p. 131)
- (video games) Items dropped by defeated enemies.
Synonyms
- (plunder): See Thesaurus:booty
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Verb
loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)
- To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence.
- to loot valuables from a temple
- 1833 "Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder", The asiatic Journal and monthly register for British India and its Dependencies Black, Parbury & Allen, p. 66.
- To steal from.
- to loot a temple for valuables
- (video games) to examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot.
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References
- Samuel Fallows, The progressive dictionary of the English language: a supplementary wordbook to all leading dictionaries of the United States and Great Britain (1885).
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Verb
loot
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of loten
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of loten
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *lōt, from Proto-Germanic *laudą.
Noun
lôot n
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Further reading
- “loot”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “loot (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
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