sot

sot

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sotho.

From Middle English sot, from Old English sot, sott (“foolish, stupid”), from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of obscure origin and relation. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to French zut! (“damn it!”).^[1][2]

Compare Middle Low German sot (“insane, foolish, stupid”), Middle Dutch sot ("foolish, absurd, stupid"; > modern Dutch zot (“silly”)), French sot (“stupid, foolish, goofy”).

• IPA^(key): /sɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophone: sought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

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sot (plural sots)

1. (archaic) stupid person; fool
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Remember
     First to possess his books; for without them
     He's but a sot, as I am […]

   • c. 1670-1680, John Oldham, The Eighth Satire of Monsieur Boileau, imitated

     In Egypt oft has seen the Sot bow down,
     And reverence some deified Baboon.

2. drunkard
   • 1684, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Essay on Translated Verse:

     Every sign
     That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.

   • April 21, 1864, John Ruskin, "Traffic", Unto This Last and Other Writings, New York: Penguin (1997), p. 235

     Take a picture by Teniers, of sots quarrelling over their dice; it is an entirely clever picture; so clever that nothing in its kind has ever been done equal to it; but it is also an entirely base and evil picture.

• (stupid person): See also Thesaurus:idiot (intelligence) or Thesaurus:fool (wisdom)
• (drunkard): alcoholic, souse, suck-pint; See also Thesaurus:drunkard

• sottish

sot (third-person singular simple present sots, present participle sotting, simple past and past participle sotted)

1. To drink until one becomes drunk
2. To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     I hate to see a brave, bold fellow sotted.

• besot
• sotted
• sot-weed

• OST, OTS, OTs, TOS, TOs, TSO, Tso, ost

• sod — Gheg^[1]
• σὸτ — Arvanitika^[2]

From Proto-Albanian *tˢjādīti, from a Pre-Albanian (post-Proto-Indo-European) *ḱyeh₂ dh₂itéy (dative-locative compound, literally “this day”). Same type of construction as sonte, sivjet. See also ditë, which is related to the second component.

• IPA^(key): [sot]

sot

1. today

• sotmë, sormë

• sonte
• sivjet
• ditë

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia root *(t)sott-.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɔt]
• Rhymes: -ɔt

sot m (plural sots)

1. hollow
2. pit, hole
3. grave

• ensotar
• sotal

• “sot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin exsūctus (compare Italian asciutto, Venetan suto, Friulian sut, Spanish enjuto, Portuguese enxuto) or Latin suctus (compare Romanian supt).

sot

1. dry

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz, cognate with Norwegian sott, Swedish sot (archaic), German Sucht. Derived from the verb *seukaną.

• IPA^(key): /soːˀt/, [ˈsoˀd̥]

sot c (singular definite soten, plural indefinite soter)

1. (dated) disease

• sygdom

• blegsot
• farsot
• gulsot
• ildsot
• sotteseng
• svindsot
• vattersot

• “sot” in Den Danske Ordbog

Cognate with Latin sunt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoːt/

sōt

1. third-person plural present active indicative of esu

Inherited from Middle French sot, from Old French soz, from Medieval Latin sottus (“foolish”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern zut! (“damn it!”). This Latin word was borrowed into Germanic languages such as Dutch zot, Old English sott (modern English sot).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /so/

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  • Homophones: saut, sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux, sots
• (older, now chiefly Belgium) IPA^(key): /sɔ/
  • Homophone: sots

sot (feminine sotte, masculine plural sots, feminine plural sottes)

1. silly, foolish, stupid

• il n’y a pas de sot métier

sot m (plural sots, feminine sotte)

1. imbecile, fool

• sottise

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

From Latin subtus, which is derived from Latin sub. Cognate to Ladin sot, Romansch sut, suot, Venetan sóto, Italian sotto, French sous, Romanian sub, supt.

sot

1. under, beneath, underneath
2. below, south of

sot

1. down
2. underneath
3. below

• disot

From Latin subtus.

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sot

1. under, beneath
2. below

sot

1. inflection of soen:
   1. second-person plural present/preterite indicative
   2. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

From Old English sot, sott, from Medieval Latin sottus, reinforced by Old French sot (“idiotic”), of obscure origin. Possibly an expressive interjection, similar to modern French zut! (“damn it!”).^[1][2]

• sotte, sote, sott, soth

• IPA^(key): /sɔt/, /sɔːt/

sot (plural sottes or (Early ME) sotten)

1. One who lacks wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence; a stupid person.
2. A villainous or dishonest individual; a rogue or scoundrel.
3. (derogatory) Used as a general-purpose insult.

• sotie
• sotliche
• sotschipe
• sotten

• English: sot
• Scots: sot

• “sot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

sot (plural and weak singular sotte)

1. idiotic, unwise

• “sot, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

From Old English sōt.

sot

1. Alternative form of soot (“soot”)

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot f or m (definite singular sota or soten, uncountable)
sot n (definite singular sotet, uncountable)

1. soot

• “sot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sot” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot f or n (definite singular sota or sotet, uncountable)

1. soot

• “sot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

• IPA^(key): /soːt/

sōt n

1. soot

• Middle English: soot, soeth, sood, soote, sot, sote, soth, soyte, suotte, sude, sute (Northern)
  • English: soot
  • Scots: suit, sute
  • Yola: zoot

From Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

• IPA^(key): /soːt/

sōt f

1. sickness

• siuka

• Swedish: sot

• sot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 2:1: M-T

sot

1. so (to contradict a negative clause)
   • 1897, J. Mackinnon, Braefoot Sketches:

     “I wisna a grain feart.” “Ye wis sot. Ye ran like the rest o's.”

     “I wasn't scared at all.” “You was so. You ran like the rest of us.”

• “sot”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /suːt/

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From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sót, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

sot n

1. soot

• sota
• sotare

From Old Swedish sōt, from Old Norse sótt, from Proto-Germanic *suhtiz.

sot c

1. (archaic) disease, sickness

• sota

• sot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• 1. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• 2. sot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• ost, ots, sto

sot (nominative plural sots)

1. a sort
2. a kind
3. a type

• bid

Borrowed from Spanish azote, from Arabic السَوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”).

sot

1. whip
2. whipping, beating

• chgoꞌo sot

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 273