Rot

English

Verb

Rot (third-person singular simple present rots, present participle rotting, simple past rotted, past participle rotten)

1. to decay or decompose; to become bad

Derived terms

• potter's rot

Noun

Rot (plural Rots)

1. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
2. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
3. Verbal nonsense.

Synonyms

• (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense

Thesaurus

Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, baloney, bighead, bilge, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blah, blah-blah, blast, blight, blind staggers, bloody flux, bop, bosh, break down, break up, broken wind, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cancer, canker, caries, carrion, cattle plague, charbon, corrupt, corruption, crap, crumble, crumble into dust, dandruff, debase, debauch, decay, decline, decompose, decomposition, degenerate, demoralize, deprave, descend, disimprove, disintegrate, distemper, dry rot, excrement, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, filth, flapdoodle, foot-and-mouth disease, foul matter, foulness, fungus, furfur, gangrene, gapes, gas, glanders, go bad, go to pieces, guff, gup, heaves, hog cholera, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hoof-and-mouth disease, hot air, hydrophobia, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malarkey, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, mange, megrims, mess, mildew, milzbrand, mold, molder, moonshine, mortification, mortify, moth, moth and rust, muck, mucus, must, necrose, necrosis, obscenity, ordure, paratuberculosis, pervert, pest, piffle, pip, poppycock, pseudotuberculosis, pus, putrefaction, putrefy, putresce, putrescence, putrid matter, putridity, putridness, quarter evil, rabies, rancidity, rancidness, rankle, rankness, retrograde, rinderpest, rottenness, rubbish, rust, scabies, scat, scurf, scuz, sheep rot, shit, sink, slime, slough, smut, snot, sordes, sphacelate, sphacelation, sphacelus, splenic fever, spoil, spoilage, staggers, stain, stringhalt, suppurate, swine dysentery, taint, tommyrot, tooth decay, trash, tripe, turn, vitiate, warp, wind, worm, worsen

Etymology

From Middle English rotten, roten, from Old English rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-Germanic *rutōnan (“to rot”), from Proto-Indo-European *reud- (“to tear”), from *reu- (“to tear, dig, gather”). Cognate with West Frisian rotsje (“to rot”), Dutch rotten (“to rot”), German rößen (“to steep flax”), Icelandic rotna (“to rot”). See rotten.

Pronunciation

• (GenAM) IPA: [ɹɑt]

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Translations

Verb

to decay

Arabic: أفسد (ar) ('áfsada), فسد (ar) (fásada) Armenian: փտել (hy) (p'tel), նեխել (hy) (nexel) Chinese: Mandarin: 腐化 (zh) (fǔhuà), 腐壞 (zh), 腐坏 (zh) (fǔhuài), 腐爛 (zh), 腐烂 (zh) (fǔlàn) Czech: hnít (cs) Danish: rådne (da) Dutch: rotten (nl), vergaan (nl) Finnish: mädäntyä (fi) French: pourrir (fr) Georgian: ლპობა (ka) (lpoba), დალპობა (ka) (dalpoba), ჩალპობა (ka) (čalpoba), ხრწნა (ka) (xrts‘na) German: verrotten (de), verderben (de)

Greek: σαπίζω (el) (sapízo) Italian: marcire (it) Japanese: 腐る (ja) (くさる, kusaru) Korean: 썩다 (ko) (sseokda), 부패하아 (ko) (bupae-hada) Latgalian: pyut, trupēt Latin: pūtesco, tābesco Latvian: pūt (lv) Lithuanian: pūti (lt) Portuguese: putrefazer (pt) Romanian: putrezi (ro), descompune (ro) Russian: гнить (ru) (gnit’) impf., сгнить (ru) (sgnit’) pf. Spanish: pudrir (es), podrir (es) Swedish: ruttna (sv) Turkish: çürümek (tr) Basque: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• ort, OTR, RTO, TOR, Tor, tor, TRO

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Catalan

Noun

Rot m. (plural Rots)

1. belcher

Etymology

Latin ructus

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Dutch

Adjective

Rot (comparative rotter, superlative Rotst)

1. rotten, spoiled, decayed, putrid
2. rotten, tedious, unkind, mean

Declension

Declension of Rot

		positive	comparative	superlative
				attributive	predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial		Rot	rotter
neuter singular	indefinite	Rot	rotter
	definite	rotte	rottere	Rotste	het Rotst(e)
common singular		rotte	rottere	Rotste	de Rotste
plural		rotte	rottere	Rotste	de Rotste
partitive		Rots	rotters

Noun

Rot n. (plural rotten, diminutive rotje, diminutive plural rotjes)

1. rot, something rotten, something rotting
2. a military term meaning a lineup of men: file

Derived terms

• een oude rot an old hand
• rot op a not so friendly way to say go away (i.e.: fuck off)
• rot- noun prefix to give it a negative meaning. For example: rotweer = shitty weather, die rothond = that damn dog'

Verb

rot

1. first-person singular present indicative of rotten.
2. imperative of rotten.

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Anagrams

• tor

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French

Noun

Rot m. (plural Rots)

1. (colloquial) belch, burp

Etymology

Latin ructus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁo/
• Homophones: rhô, ros, rôt

Synonyms

• renvoi

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German

Adjective

Rot (comparative röter, superlative am rötesten)
Rot (comparative roter, superlative am rotesten)

1. red
2. red-haired (short for rothaarig)
3. (politics) leftist; on the left of the political spectrum
4. (politics, Germany) specifically, pertaining to the SPD (a large social democratic party in Germany) or Linke (a far-left political party in Germany)
5. (historical, offensive) Indian (pertaining to the Native Americans)

Alternative forms

• roth (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ʁoːt]

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Etymology

From Middle High German rōt (“red, red-haired”), from Old High German rōt (“red, scarlet, purple-red, brown-red, yellow-red”), akin to Old Saxon rōd, Old Dutch rōd (modern Dutch rood); from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from a Proto-Indo-European *reudʰ-.

Declension

positive forms of Rot

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist Rot	sie ist Rot	es ist Rot	sie sind Rot
strong declension (without article)	nominative	roter	rote	rotes	rote
	genitive	roten	roter	roten	roter
	dative	rotem	roter	rotem	roten
	accusative	roten	rote	rotes	rote
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der rote	die rote	das rote	die roten
	genitive	des roten	der roten	des roten	der roten
	dative	dem roten	der roten	dem roten	den roten
	accusative	den roten	die rote	das rote	die roten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein roter	eine rote	ein rotes	(keine) roten
	genitive	eines roten	einer roten	eines roten	(keiner) roten
	dative	einem roten	einer roten	einem roten	(keinen) roten
	accusative	einen roten	eine rote	ein rotes	(keine) roten

comparative forms of Rot

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist roter	sie ist roter	es ist roter	sie sind roter
strong declension (without article)	nominative	roterer	rotere	roteres	rotere
	genitive	roteren	roterer	roteren	roterer
	dative	roterem	roterer	roterem	roteren
	accusative	roteren	rotere	roteres	rotere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der rotere	die rotere	das rotere	die roteren
	genitive	des roteren	der roteren	des roteren	der roteren
	dative	dem roteren	der roteren	dem roteren	den roteren
	accusative	den roteren	die rotere	das rotere	die roteren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein roterer	eine rotere	ein roteres	(keine) roteren
	genitive	eines roteren	einer roteren	eines roteren	(keiner) roteren
	dative	einem roteren	einer roteren	einem roteren	(keinen) roteren
	accusative	einen roteren	eine rotere	ein roteres	(keine) roteren

superlative forms of Rot

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist am rotesten	sie ist am rotesten	es ist am rotesten	sie sind am rotesten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	rotester	roteste	rotestes	roteste
	genitive	rotesten	rotester	rotesten	rotester
	dative	rotestem	rotester	rotestem	rotesten
	accusative	rotesten	roteste	rotestes	roteste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der roteste	die roteste	das roteste	die rotesten
	genitive	des rotesten	der rotesten	des rotesten	der rotesten
	dative	dem rotesten	der rotesten	dem rotesten	den rotesten
	accusative	den rotesten	die roteste	das roteste	die rotesten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein rotester	eine roteste	ein rotestes	(keine) rotesten
	genitive	eines rotesten	einer rotesten	eines rotesten	(keiner) rotesten
	dative	einem rotesten	einer rotesten	einem rotesten	(keinen) rotesten
	accusative	einen rotesten	eine roteste	ein rotestes	(keine) rotesten

Derived terms

• röten
• rot-grün
• rothaarig
• Rotkehlchen
• rötlich
• rot-rot
• rot-rot-grün
• rot sehen
• Rotstift
• Rötung
• Rotwein

Related terms

• Rot

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Norwegian

Verb

Rot

1. imperative of rote

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Old High German

Adjective

rōt

1. red

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raudaz (compare Old English rēad, Old Norse rauðr) < Proto-Indo-European *reudh-.

Descendants

• German: rot
• Yiddish: רויט (royt)

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Swedish

Noun

Rot c.

1. root; the part of a plant under the surface.
2. the part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place
3. source; an underlying cause

   Kärleken till pengar är roten till allt ont

   The love of money is the root of all evil

4. (mathematics) of a number n., a positive number which, when raised to a specified power, yields n; the square root is understood if no power is specified

   Kubikroten ur 27 är 3

   The cube root of 27 is 3

   Multiplicera med roten ur 2

   Multiply by root 2

5. (mathematics) a zero (of a function).
6. (mathematics) a designated node in a tree.
7. (mathematics) curl; a measure on how fast a vector field rotates: it can be described as the cross product of del and a given vectorial field
8. (computing) root directory
9. (philology) a word from which another word is derived.

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Declension

Declension of Rot

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Rot	Roten	rötter	rötterna
genitive	Rots	Rotens	rötters	rötternas

Synonyms

• källa (3)
• nollställe (5)

See also

• rötter
• rota (sig)

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Tok Pisin

Noun

Rot

1. road, street
   • '2003, Mühlhäusler et al., Tok Pisin texts, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 9:

     Planti liklik rot i stap long ailan hia.

     Many little roads exist on this island.

References

Tok Pisin texts: from the beginning to the present / edited by Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton, Suzanne Romaine. / John Benjamins Publishing Company / Copyright 2003 / ISBN 90 272 4718 8 / page 106