clot

See also: clôt

English

Alternative forms

• clout (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“lump”). Cognate with German Klotz (“block”). Doublet of clod and klutz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɒt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

clot (plural clots)

1. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
   • 1567, Ovid, The.xv.Bookes of P. Ouidius Naſo, entytuled Metamorphoſis, tranſlated oute of Latin into Engliſh meeter, by Arthur Golding, Gentleman:

     and nothing elſe but euen, A heauie lump and clottred clod of ſeedes togither driuen)

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.

3. A silly person.

Derived terms

• anticlot
• blood clot
• clot retraction time
• clotshot
• clotty
• clutter
• coroner's clot
• euglobulin clot lysis time
• microclot
• periclot

Translations

blood clot

Aromanian: cljag n Bulgarian: съсирек m (sǎsirek) Catalan: coàgul (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 血塊 / 血块 (zh) (xuèkuài) Dutch: klonter (nl) Finnish: hyytymä (fi) French: caillot (fr) m, thrombus (fr) m German: Blutgerinnsel (de) n Greek: θρόμβος (el) m (thrómvos) Ancient: θρόμβος m (thrómbos) Hungarian: vérrög (hu) Ido: grumelo (io) Irish: teachtán m Italian: coagulo (it) m, trombo (it) m, grumo (it) m Japanese: (血の)塊 (かたまり, katamari), 凝血 (ぎょうけつ, gyōketsu) Latin: blatta (la) f Manx: çhaghtane m Maori: poketoto, tepe, tepetepe Middle English: clod Occitan: grumèl (oc) m, grumèu (oc) m, tromb m Persian: لخته (fa) (laxte) Polish: skrzep m Portuguese: trombo (pt) m, coágulo (pt) m Romanian: cheag (ro) n, tromb m Russian: сгу́сток (ru) m (sgústok) (кро́ви) Spanish: coágulo (es) m, cuajarón (es) m Thai: ลิ่ม (th) (lîm) Turkish: pıhtı (tr) Ukrainian: тромб m (tromb), згу́сток кро́ві m (zhústok króvi) Walloon: alot (wa) m Welsh: tolch f, tolchen f

solidified mass of any liquid

Catalan: grumoll (ca) m Finnish: klimppi (fi) Galician: grolo (gl) m Greek: Ancient: θρόμβος m (thrómbos) Irish: teachtán m Manx: glub m (dairying) Ottoman Turkish: پختی (pıhtı) Polish: grudka (pl) f Portuguese: grumo (pt) Ukrainian: згу́сток m (zhústok) Welsh: tolch f, ceulad m

a silly person

Bulgarian: глупак (bg) m (glupak) Catalan: beneit (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 笨蛋 (zh) (bèndàn) Dutch: stommeling (nl), idioot (nl) Finnish: tollo (fi) French: imbécile (fr) m, idiot (fr) m German: Trottel (de) m Italian: idiota (it) m, stupido (it) m, imbecille (it) m Portuguese: bobo (pt) m Russian: болва́н (ru) m (bolván)

Verb

clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)

1. (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
   • 2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine‎, archived from the original on 5 January 2023:

     When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.

2. (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:

     They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter.

Derived terms

• clottability
• clottable
• clotting factor
• clottish
• kaolin clotting time

Translations

to form into a clot

Aromanian: ncljeg Bulgarian: съсирвам се (sǎsirvam se), пресичам се (presičam se) Catalan: coagular-se (ca), agrumollar-se (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 結塊 / 结块 (jiékuài) Dutch: klonteren (nl), stollen (nl), Finnish: hyytyä (fi) French: coaguler (fr), cailler (fr), Galician: callar (gl), trallar (gl) German: Klumpen bilden, klumpen (de) Ido: grumeleskar (io) Italian: coagularsi Latin: concrēscere; (not of blood) coāgulāre, conglobāre Manx: çhiu, binjee (dairtying), glub (dairying) Maori: tepe, tetepe Ottoman Turkish: پختیلانمق (pıhtılanmak) Persian: لخته شدن (laxte šodan) Polish: krzepnąć (pl) Portuguese: coagular (pt) Romanian: închega (ro) Russian: сгуща́ться (ru) impf (sguščátʹsja), сгусти́ться (ru) pf (sgustítʹsja), свёртываться (ru) impf (svjórtyvatʹsja), сверну́ться (ru) pf (svernútʹsja), запека́ться (ru) impf (zapekátʹsja), запе́чься (ru) pf (zapéčʹsja) Spanish: coagularse (es) Turkish: pıhtılaşmak (tr) Welsh: tolchi

to cause to clot

Catalan: coagular (ca) Finnish: hyydyttää Italian: coagulare (it) Manx: çhiu, binjee (dairying), glub (dairying) Portuguese: coagular (pt) Romanian: coagula (ro) Russian: сгуща́ть (ru) impf (sguščátʹ), сгусти́ть (ru) pf (sgustítʹ), свёртывать (ru) impf (svjórtyvatʹ), сверну́ть (ru) pf (svernútʹ) Welsh: tolchi

Anagrams

• Colt, TLOC, colt

Catalan

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but from Paleo-Hispanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈklɔt]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

clot m (plural clots)

1. pit, hole
2. dip (a lower section of a road or geological feature)

Derived terms

• clota
• clotada
• clotell
• clotós
• El Clot

Further reading

• “clot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “clot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “clot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clotte

Etymology

From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɔt/

Noun

clot (plural clottes)

1. A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
2. The ground; the earth's surface.
3. (figurative) The body.
4. (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.

Descendants

• English: clot

References

• “clot, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.