klot

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German glatt (smooth).

Alternative forms

Adjective

klȍt (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т) (Vojvodina)

  1. basic, undecorated
  2. unseasoned, ungarnished
  3. (knitting) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
Coordinate terms
  • (knitting): fr̀kēt

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cloth.

Alternative forms

  • klòta

Noun

klȍt m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т)

  1. broadcloth

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish klōt, from Middle Low German klôt, from Old Saxon *klōt, from Proto-Germanic *klautaz.

Cognate of German Kloß, English cleat, Dutch kloot. Compare with origin for klut.

Pronunciation

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Noun

klot n

  1. a solid (large) ball, often harder than a boll
  2. (mathematics) ball; the set of points in a metric space of distance less than (or equal to) a given number.
  3. (bookbinding) buckram (stiff cloth used in book covers)

Declension

Declension of klot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite klot klots
definite klotet klotets
plural indefinite klot klots
definite kloten klotens

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Volapük

Noun

klot (nominative plural klots)

  1. a dress (in general)
  2. a garment
  3. clothing, clothes

Declension

Declension of klot
singular plural
nominative klot klots
genitive klota klotas
dative klote klotes
accusative kloti klotis
vocative 1 o klot! o klots!
predicative 2 klotu klotus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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