lotus

• lotos (dated)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós). Doublet of lote. First attested in the 1540s

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈloʊtəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈləʊtəs/

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• Rhymes: -əʊtəs

lotus (plural lotuses or loti)

2. A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.
3. A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India. [from 1580s]
4. A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.
5. A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
   1. Diospyros lotus, date plum or Caucasian persimmon.
   2. Lotus, a terrestrial genus with small flowers that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deervetches.
   3. Ziziphus lotus, a shrub species with edible fruit.
6. An architectural motif of ancient Egyptian temples.
7. Ellipsis of lotus position. [from 1848]
   • 1979, Charlie King, “Vaguely Reminiscent of the Sixties (The Story)”:

     Since the '60s ended abruptly on January 1, 1970, everyone, protestors, police and all, fell to the ground in a full lotus.

• lotus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• louts, tolus

Learned borrowing from Latin lotus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈlɔ.tus]

lotus m (invariable)

1. lotus

• lledó

• “lotus”, 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
• “lotus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “lotus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lotus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.tʏs/

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• Hyphenation: lo‧tus

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

lotus m (plural lotussen, diminutive lotusje n)

1. lotus, plant of the genus Nelumbo
2. used for certain plants of the genus Nymphaea

• blauwe lotus
• lotusbloem

From the acronym of Landelijke Opleiding Tot Uitbeelding van Slachtoffers (literally “National Training Course for the Portrayal of Victims”).

lotus m or f (plural lotussen, diminutive lotusje n)

1. (Netherlands, medicine slang) patient actor, simulated patient, standardized participant (a lay person person trained to portray medical conditions)

   Synonym: trauma-acteur

• lotusslachtoffer

• “lotus” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

• IPA^(key): /lo.tys/

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lotus m (plural lotus)

1. lotus

• “lotus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch lotus, from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

• IPA^(key): [ˈlotʊs]
• Hyphenation: lo‧tus

lotus (plural lotus-lotus)

1. lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)

   Synonyms: padma, pekaja, seroja, teratai

• “lotus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫoː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔː.t̪us]

Perfect passive participle of lavō (“wash”). Doublet of lavātus and lautus.

lōtus (feminine lōta, neuter lōtum); first/second-declension participle

1. washed, bathed, having been washed
2. elegant, luxurious
3. fashionable, refined

First/second-declension adjective.

• illōtus

From lavō (“to wash”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix)

lōtus m (genitive lōtūs); fourth declension

1. a washing, bathing

Fourth-declension noun.

Variant form of lōtos, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

• lōtos

lōtus m (genitive lōtī); second declension

1. The Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea
2. The date plum, Diospyros lotus
3. The mythical lotus tree, possibly Ziziphus lotus

Second-declension noun.

• lōtaster

• Translingual: Lotus
• Italian: loto

• “lotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lotus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lotus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lotus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin lōtus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.tus/

lotus m (plural lotuși)

1. lotus

• “lotus”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025