Lot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lot"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɒt/
• (US) enPR: lät, IPA^(key): /lɑt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

From Hebrew לוֹט (lot). Doublet of Lut.

Alternative forms

• Lut (Islam)

Proper noun

Lot

2. (biblical) A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 12:5:

     And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

3. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.

Derived terms

• Lot's wife

Translations

nephew of Abraham

Amharic: ሎጥ (loṭ) Arabic: لُوط (ar) m (lūṭ) Armenian: Լոտ (Lot) Azerbaijani: Lut Belarusian: Лот m (Lot) Bengali: লূত (lūt) Bulgarian: Лот m (Lot) Catalan: Lot m Chinese: Mandarin: 羅得 / 罗得 (Luódé) Coptic: ⲗⲱⲧ (lōt) Finnish: Loot French: Lot (fr) m, Loth (fr) m Georgian: ლოტი (loṭi) German: Lot (de) m Greek: Λωτ (el) m (Lot) Ancient Greek: Λώτ m (Lṓt) Hawaiian: Lota Hebrew: לוֹט (he) m (lot) Hindi: लूत (hi) m (lūt) Hungarian: Lót (hu) Japanese: ロト (Roto) Kazakh: Лұт (Lūt) Korean: 롯 (Rot) Latin: Lōt m Macedonian: Лот m (Lot) Maore Comorian: Lutwi Ngazidja Comorian: Lutu Pashto: لوط m (lut) Persian: لوط (fa) (lut) Polish: Lot (pl) m Portuguese: Ló m, Lot m Romanian: Lot m Russian: Лот (ru) m (Lot) Spanish: Lot m Swahili: Lutu Turkish: Lut Ukrainian: Лот m (Lot) Urdu: لوط m (lūt) Uyghur: لۇت (lut) Uzbek: Lut

Further reading

• Lot (biblical person) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Lot.

Proper noun

Lot

2. A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).
4. A right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne.

Translations

department of France

Catalan: Òlt m French: Lot (fr) m Marathi: लॉत (lŏt) Occitan: Òut m, Òlt (oc) m Polish: Lot (pl) n

Anagrams

• LTO, OTL, tol, tol'

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlot]

Proper noun

Lot m anim (female equivalent Lotová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Lot (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Lot	Lotové
genitive	Lota	Lotů
dative	Lotovi	Lotům
accusative	Lota	Loty
vocative	Lote	Lotové
locative	Lotovi	Lotech
instrumental	Lotem	Loty

Further reading

• “Lot”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin Oltis (Gallo-Roman).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Proper noun

Lot m

1. Lot (a department of Occitania, France)
2. Lot (a right tributary of the Garonne, in southern France, flowing through the departments of Lozère, Cantal, Aveyron, Lot and Lot-et-Garonne)

See also

• Lot-et-Garonne

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /loːt/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophone: loht

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *plowdʰo-

Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom

Gaulish *loudonbor.?

Proto-West Germanic *laud

Old High German *lōt

Middle High German lōt

German Lot

Inherited from Middle High German lōt, from Old High German *lōt, from Proto-West Germanic *laud, possibly borrowed from Gaulish *loudon, from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom (“lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *plowdʰo- (“lead”).

Noun

Lot n (strong, genitive Lotes or Lots, plural Lote)

1. (nautical) plummet (device for measuring water depth)

   Synonym: Senkblei

2. (mathematics) plummet (device for levelling)

   Synonyms: Richtblei, Senkblei

3. (hence with in or aus) an exact vertical position

   Synonyms: Senkrechte, Vertikale

4. (technical) solder (alloy used for soldering)

   Synonyms: Weichlot, Lötmittel, Lötlegierung

5. (obsolete) lead, any piece of lead

   Synonym: Blei

6. (historical) lot (unit of weight)

   Coordinate term: Quentchen

   • 1787, Johann Georg Krünitz, Oeconomische Encyclopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-Stadt-Haus-u. Landwirthschaft, in alphabetischer Ordnung, page 320:

     Apotheker-Gewicht, ist von andern Arten der im gemeinen Leben gebräuchlichen Gewichte sehr unterschieden, und hat jedes Stück auch seine besondere Signatur oder Zeichnung, als: ein Pfund hat 24 Loth, oder 12 Unzen, […]

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Declension

Declension of Lot [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Lot	die	Lote
genitive	eines	des	Lotes, Lots	der	Lote
dative	einem	dem	Lot, Lote1	den	Loten
accusative	ein	das	Lot	die	Lote

¹Now rare, see notes.

Alternative forms

• Loth (obsolete)

Derived terms

• Echolot
• Freunde in der Not gehen hundert auf ein Lot
• löten
• ausloten

Descendants

• → Hungarian: lat
• → Polish: lut

Etymology 2

From Hebrew לוֹט (lot).

Proper noun

Lot m (proper noun, strong, genitive Lots or (with an article) Lot)

1. Lot (biblical character)

Further reading

• Lot (Einheit) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de