mot

From French mot. Doublet of motto.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊ

mot (plural mots)

1. A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
   • 1859, unknown author, "Literary Adventure. Life of Douglas Jerrold", in North British Review

     Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 32:

     ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.

2. (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
   • 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum

     With his big title, an Italian mot

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:

     Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

3. (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

     Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock

Probably from Dutch mot (“woman”). See also mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒt/

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mot (plural mots)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A woman; a wife.
   • 1789, G. Parker, “The Sandman's Wedding”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris‎, published 1896:

     Come wed, my dear, and let's agree, / Then of the booze-ken you'll be free; / No sneer from cully, mot, or froe / Dare then reproach my Bess for Joe; / For he's the kiddy rum and queer, / That all St. Giles's boys do fear.

   • 1829 July 1, Vidocq, Eugène François; Maginn, William, transl., “Noctes Ambrosiana [En roulant de vergne en vergne]”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎, number 45, translation of En roulant de vergne en vergne, page 133:

     And we shall caper a-heel-and-toeing, / A Newgate hornpipe some fine day; / With the mots, their ogles throwing, / Tol lol, &c. / And old Cotton humming his pray.

2. (UK, Ireland, slang) A prostitute.
3. (UK, Ireland, slang) A landlady.
   • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:

     After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange "ground," &c., for the night's work.

• OMT, OTM, TMO, Tom, tom

From Proto-Albanian *māti (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (“measurement”), deverbative of *meh₁- (“to measure”); compare Old English mǣþ (“measure”), Lithuanian mẽtas (“time”), Ancient Greek μῆτις (mêtis, “plan”).[1] Sense shift from ‘time’ to ‘weather, year, era’ influenced by Latin tempus (“time, weather”) (compare Romanian timp, French temps).

mot m (indefinite plural mote, definite singular moti, definite plural motet)

1. weather

   Synonym: qëro (archaic)

2. year
3. era, times (uncountable)

mot

1. next year

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttire (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare French mot.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmot/

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• Rhymes: -ot

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

   Synonym: paraula

• joc de mots

• “mot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

mot

1. fashion

   Şimdi pek mot emiş ağarğan saçlar

   Ah men şu motluqtan uzaq olaydım.

• IPA^(key): /mɔt/

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• Hyphenation: mot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

From Middle Dutch motte. Cognate to English moth, German Motte.

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. butterfly-like insect: moth (usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera)

• nachtvlinder

• Negerhollands: mot
• → Papiamentu: mot (dated)

An onomatopoeia.

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. a slap, a blow, a hit (physical aggression with hands or fists)
2. (by extension) a quarrel, tiff

From Middle Low German mutte.

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. a female pig; a sow

   Synonym: zeug

2. (by extension) a lewd woman

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mot f (plural motten, diminutive motje n)

1. light rain; drizzle

• motregen

From Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttīre (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin. Has almost entirely replaced parole in Modern French, perhaps because of its brevity. Compare Catalan mot.

• IPA^(key): /mo/

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  • Rhymes: -o
  • Homophones: maux, mots
• (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA^(key): /mɔ/

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  • Rhymes: -ɔ
  • Homophone: mots

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

   Synonym: parole

   • 1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire‎, page 43:

     Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d'images qu'un arrangeur de rimes et de mots.

     The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.

2. note, (short) message

   Synonyms: message, note

• “mot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• TOM

From Old English mot.

• mote, mothe, mouthe

• IPA^(key): /mɔːt/

mot (plural motes)

1. speck, particle

• English: mote
• Yola: mothe, mot

• “mōt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).

• IPA^(key): /moːt/

mot (plural motes or moteez)

1. (Early Middle English, rare) tax

• Yola: mot

• “mọ̄t, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

mot

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of moten (“to have to”)

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

• French: mot

• IPA^(key): /muːt/

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

1. courage

From Old Norse mót.

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota or motene)

1. a meeting

• åmot

mot

1. to, towards

   Kjør mot byen. ― Drive towards town.

2. against, from

   En paraply skjermer deg mot regnet! ― An umbrella protects you from the rain!

3. against, versus

   Det var et kappløp mot tiden. ― It was a race against time.

• “mot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /muːt/

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mot n (definite singular motet, uncountable)

1. courage

From Old Norse mót.

mot n (definite singular motet, indefinite plural mot, definite plural mota)

1. a meeting

• åmot

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

mot

1. to, towards

   Han kom mot dei. ― He came towards them.

2. against, from; for

   Har de noko som verkar mot tett nase? ― Do you have anything that works for a stuffy nose?

3. against, versus

   Kven skal me spela mot? ― Who shall we play against?

• “mot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mòt

From Late Latin muttum.

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mot m (plural mots)

1. word

• IPA^(key): /moːt/

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mōt

1. first/third-person singular present of motan

From Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō (“tax, toll”).

mōt f

1. toll
2. tax

• Middle English: mot
  • Yola: mot

• *mōt

From Late Latin muttum.

mot m (oblique plural moz or motz, nominative singular moz or motz, nominative plural mot)

1. word

   Synonym: (more common) parole

• French: mot

See molt

mot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mote)

1. Alternative form of molt

mot

1. Alternative form of molt

• IPA^(key): /mut/

From Latin multus.

• mout

mot

1. much; a lot

From Late Latin muttum.

mot m (oblique plural motz, nominative singular motz, nominative plural mot)

1. word

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “muttum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 303

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.

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mot n

1. (chiefly west Sweden) A point where two or more objects meet (e.g. the joint of two bones).
2. (chiefly west Sweden) A slip road or flyover.
3. (chiefly west Sweden) An interchange; a large junction where two or more roads meet.
4. (Ostrobothnia) A passing place.

   Synonym: mötesplats

• ledamot (“body part; board member”)

mot

1. to, towards

   Kör mot stan. ― Drive towards the town.

2. against

   Det där är mot lagen! ― That’s against the law!

3. versus

• mot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Tom, t.o.m., tom

mot

1. alcohol
2. alcoholic beverage

mot (nominative plural mots)

1. mother

   Synonym: jifat

   Hypernym: pal

   Coordinate term: fat

mot m (plural mots)

1. word

• motî

From Old Norse mót, from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, *gamōtą.

• IPA^(key): /muːt/, [mɯ́ᵝːt], [móʊ̯ːt]
• Rhymes: -úːt

mot n or f (definite singular mote or mota)

1. Mould, form to cast something in.
2. Part of a wheel ring.
3. (as an adverb, with dative) To meet.

   gamot ― to go to meet

4. (as an adverb, with dative) Towards.

   han kåmme gɑen mot gɑlåm ― he came walking towards the estate

Unknown. Perhaps from Middle English but, from Old English būtan.

mot

1. but

From Middle English mot, from Old English mōt, from Proto-West Germanic *mōtu, from Proto-Germanic *mōtō.

mot

1. asking (A charge on goods)

mot

1. Alternative form of mothe

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 57