grot

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɒt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

From grotto, by shortening, or French grotte.

grot (plural grots)

1. (poetic) A grotto.
   • 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:

     She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four.

Back-formation from grotty.

grot (countable and uncountable, plural grots) (British)

1. (slang, uncountable) Any unpleasant substance or material.
2. (slang, countable) A miserable person.

• trog

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From Dutch grot, either directly from Italian grotta or indirectly via French grotte, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós).

• IPA^(key): /χrɔt/

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grot (plural grotte, diminutive grotjie)

1. cave, cavern

   Synonym: spelonk

   Kuiergaste mag die grot net met 'n gids binnegaan.

   Tourists may enter the cave only with a guide.

Borrowed directly from Italian grotta or indirectly via French grotte, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós). Doublet of crypte, krocht, and gruft.

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɔt/

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• Hyphenation: grot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

grot f (plural grotten, diminutive grotje n)

1. cave, cavern

   Twaalf mensen waren omgekomen, nadat ze in een grot verdwaald geraakt waren.

   Twelve people had passed away, after they had got lost inside a cave.

• spelonk

• grotbewoner
• grotschildering
• grotspelonk
• grottenbeer
• grottenhyena
• grottenleeuw
• ijsgrot
• lavagrot

• crypte
• krocht

• Afrikaans: grot

• trog

grot

1. neuter nominative of gro
2. neuter accusative of gro

From Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą.

• grott, grotte

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔːt/, /ɡrɔt/

grot (plural grotes)

1. Hulled grain.

• English: groat
• Yola: gurt, grut

• “grō̆t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “grōtes, n.(2) plural.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle Dutch groot.

• grote, groot, groote

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔːt/

grot (plural grotes or grottes)

1. A groat or other silver coin of similar value, traditionally worth four pennies, or the weight corresponding to that coin.

• English: groat
• Yola: grate

• “grōt, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-22.

From Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

1=grōtiro
2=grōtist
3=groz

grōt

1. big, large
2. great

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: grôot
  • Dutch: groot
    • Afrikaans: groot
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: groto
    • Jersey Dutch: x'rôt
    • Negerhollands: groot, grooto, guṅgu, gro
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: gungu (dated)
    • Petjo: groot
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: groat
  • Limburgish: groeat
  • Zealandic: groôt

• “grōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *grutą.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrot/

grot n

1. particle
2. fragment

• Middle English: grot, grott, grotte
  • English: groat
  • Yola: gurt, grut

From Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz, whence Old English great.

grōt (comparative grōtoro, superlative grōtost)

1. great

• Middle Low German: grôt
  • Low German: groot
    • German Low German: groot; graut (Münsterländisch)

      Plautdietsch: groot

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: grot
• Homophone: Grot

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *grotъ.

grot m inan

1. arrowhead

Borrowed from Dutch grootzeil.

grot m inan

1. mainsail

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

grot f

1. genitive plural of grota

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

• грутъ (grut)

Probably borrowed into Russenorsk from some older unknown pidgin developed during early Russian-Dutch trade. In this case, can be derived from e.g. Middle Dutch grôot or West Frisian grut.

• IPA^(key): /ɡruːt/

grot

1. big

   Synonym: bolsa

   Грутъ стока по гафъ

   Grut stoka po gaf

   A big storm on the sea (with strong eastern wind)

grot

1. a lot, much
2. very

   Synonym: mera

   Grot vre kom

   Became very angry

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge, 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

Acronym of grenar och toppar.

grot c

1. (forestry) logging waste, logging refuse