klot
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from German glatt (“smooth”).
Alternative forms
Adjective
klȍt (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т) (Vojvodina)
- basic, undecorated
- unseasoned, ungarnished
- (knitting) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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Coordinate terms
- (knitting): fr̀kēt
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- klòta
Noun
klȍt m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т)
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
- a solid (large) ball, often harder than a boll
- (mathematics) ball; the set of points in a metric space of distance less than (or equal to) a given number.
- (bookbinding) buckram (stiff cloth used in book covers)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | klot | klots |
| definite | klotet | klotets | |
| plural | indefinite | klot | klots |
| definite | kloten | klotens |
Derived terms
- bowlingklot (“bowling ball”)
- jordklot (“globe; [a] planet Earth”)
- klotblixt (“ball lightning”)
- varselklot (“overhead wire marker”)
See also
References
- klot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- klot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- klot in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- klot in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- klot in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L
Anagrams
Volapük
Noun
klot (nominative plural klots)
Declension
| 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