pot

sq-noun

pot m (plural pota, definite poti, definite plural potat)

pota (plural)
poti (definite)
potat (definite plural)


pot

rup-verb

pot first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative poati or poate, past participle pututã)

pot first-singular present indicative (canonical)
poati (indicative present singular third-person)
poate (indicative present singular third-person)
pututã (participle past)
potu (alternative)

From a Vulgar Latin *pot(e)o, analogical replacement for possō, regularization of Latin possum. Compare Romanian pot, putea.


pot

Inherited from Vulgar Latin pottum, pottus (“pot, jar”), from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with French pot, English pot, Saterland Frisian Pot, Dutch pot, German Low German Pott, German Pott, Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”).


pot

third-person singular present indicative of poder


pot

pot (nominative singular)
poty (nominative plural)
potu (genitive singular)
potů (genitive plural)
potu (dative singular)
potům (dative plural)
pot (accusative singular)
poty (accusative plural)
pote (singular vocative)
poty (plural vocative)
potu (locative singular)
potech (locative plural)
potem (instrumental singular)
poty (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech pot, from Proto-Slavic *potъ (“sweat”).


pot

kitty or pool (where stakes, etc., are centralized)

(Netherlands, vulgar) loo, crapper (toilet)

nl-noun

pot m (plural potten, diminutive potje n)

potten (plural)
potje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pot

Berbice Creole Dutch: poto

Negerhollands: pot, put, potji

→ Virgin Islands Creole: poty

Papiamentu: pòchi (from the diminutive)

Petjo: pot

→ Caribbean Javanese: pot

→ Indonesian: pot, poci (from the diminutive)

From Middle Dutch pot, from Old Dutch pot, from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”). Cognate with English pot (“pot”).


pot

pot f (plural potten, diminutive potje n)


pot

first/second/third-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


pot

A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.

Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.

A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.

Shit or get off the pot.

“Clinton,” Gail cried from outside, “are you going to sit on the pot all day?”

2011, Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek, page 204:

(archaic except in fixed expressions) A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.

(Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.

A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.

"So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 85:

(obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.

There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don′t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home.

2009, Deborah Penrith et al., Live & Work in Australia, page 187:

(Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).

Rowten Pot

(archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.

A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.

After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.

(slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.

(historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.

The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French...

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:

(historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.

(rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.

No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.

(gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.

a pension pot

a savings pot

An allocation of money for a particular purpose.

(UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.

Fabienne: I wish I had a pot.
Butch: You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot?
Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy.
Butch: Well you should be happy, 'cause you do.
Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star". It's not the same thing.

(slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).

England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.

2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:

(slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).

(chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.

(historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

pott

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

pot

unit of volume notionally equivalent to the capacity of a pot

pussitus

cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket

eriste

rail transport: non-conducting stand that supports the third rail

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.


pot

to pot a plant

potted meat

Potting (electronics)
w:Potting (electronics)

(electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.

(snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.

(snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.

When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.

(intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.

(transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.

(British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.

It is less labour to plough than to pot it.

1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

(obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.

Too much temper likewise prevents the melasses from separating from the sugar when it is potted or put into the hogshead

1793, Bryan Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies:

(transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.

Ideally the best Ideally the best way of tackling the problem of toilet training, is to 'pot' your child at set intervals when he is at home, even though he may no longer be a baby, thus establishing a regular routine instead of one at odd intervals.

1975, Nancie R. Finnie, Handling the Young Cerebral Palsied Child, →ISBN, page 75:

If you leave out this “catching" stage altogether and start proper toilet training at, say, eighteen months you will only have to pot your baby about 2000 times for the same effect.

1978, Penelope Leach, Your Baby & Child from Birth to Age Five, →ISBN, page 225:

Do not make the mistake of potting your baby as early as possible, but wait until she gives the signal that she is aware that puddles are somehow to do with her.

2004, Joan Gomez, Coping with Incontinence, →ISBN, page 33:

Of course, if at any stage your child takes a violent dislike to the pot, then I would put it away for a few weeks and then try again, but if the pot is very comfortable, your attitude is calm and you don't over-pot your child (put him on the pot too often or talk about the pot too much), this shouldn't happen.

2012, Nanny Smith, Nina Grunfeld, Nanny Knows Best: Successful Potty Training, →ISBN:

(transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.

(chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.

Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer.

1986, Carolyn Ellis, Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 77:

Potting Eels: Except for the mature neshaws, Vineyard eels were potted (caught by pots) in September and October. […] When eeling was good, each pot would catch 25 to 100 pounds of neshaws; some pots would be filled to capacity.

1994, The Dukes County Intelligencer, volumes 36-37, page 131:

With five minutes to go, Trevathan potted his second goal, and finally it was the fullback Taylor who scored.

1967, Arthur H. Carman, Ranfurly Shield Rugby, page 139:

He played for the Oxford Australians against their Cambridge counterparts, and even potted a few goals at picnic Rugby matches.

1998, Geoffrey Serle: In Tribute, page 20:

(rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)


pot

The way we figure it, ma'am, if everybody walked around naked, smoked pot and listened to rock'n'roll, there wouldn't be any more wars!

1968 July, Shel Silverstein, “Silverstein's Hippies”, in Playboy Magazine, page 189:

Possibly a shortened form of Mexican Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya (“cannabis leaves”), or potación de guaya (literally “drink of grief”), supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped, from pota + de + guaya (see guayar (“to lament”)).


pot

(slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

slide pot

a sliding (linear) potentiometer typically designed to be manipulated by a thumb or finger

thumb pot

a rotating potentiometer designed to be turned by a thumb or finger


pot

While the announcer is talking, the select switch on the mixing board for the microphone input is selected, and the microphone is “potted up.”

1999, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-engineers, page 23:

(slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.


pot

(roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.


pot

pot à épices

pot d’eau

with de indicates either actual/current use...

pot de verre

pot, jar, vase, tin, can, carton (a container of any of various materials)

cooking pot (any vessel used to cook food)

(childish) potty (the pot used when toilet-training children)

(colloquial) drink, jar, bevvy (alcoholic beverage)

(colloquial) do (UK), bash, drinks party (a small, informal party or celebration)

(card games) pot, kitty, pool (money staked at cards, etc.)

(informal) luck (success; chance occurrence, especially when favourable)

(oenology) a half-litre bottle or measure of wine

a pre-metric unit of measure, equivalent to 1.5 litres

(slang, vulgar) arse, ass (the buttocks)

c'est dans les vieux pots qu'on fait la meilleure soupe

Inherited from Middle French pot, from Old French pot (“pot”), from Vulgar Latin pottum, pottus (“pot, jar”), from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a kind of vessel”). More at English pot.


pot

(North America) pot, weed (cannabis, marijuana)


pot

pot (a vessel used to hold soil for growing plants)

From Dutch pot, from Middle Dutch pot, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”). Doublet of poci.


pot

From Vulgar Latin *pot(e)o, analogical replacement of posso, potere, from Latin possum. Compare Aromanian pot, Romanian putea, pot.


pot

Dutch: pot

Limburgish: pót

From Old Dutch pot, from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”).


pot

A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
A cookpot (a pot used for cooking in)

A pot used for storing substances (especially food or water)

A pot used for ladling or serving liquids; a beaker.

A measurement for the quantity of liquids.

A pot of a certain material or manufacture:

pottes (plural)
potte (alternative)
pott (alternative)
poot (alternative)
pote (alternative)

English: pot

Scots: pott, pat

From Old English pott and Old French pot, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *puttaz, from Proto-Indo-European *budnós.


pot

Février dit à Janvier:—'Si j'étais à votre pièche je f'rais gelaïr le pots sus le faeu et les p'tits éfàns aux seins de leurs mères'—et pour son ìmpudence i' fut raccourchi de daeux jours, et Janvier fut aloigni.

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, pages 530-31:

February said to January:—If I were in your place I would cause the pots to freeze on the fire, and babes at their mothers' breasts—and for his insolence he was shortened of two days, and January was lengthened.

From Old French pot (“pot”), from Vulgar Latin pottum, pottus (“pot, jar”), from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a kind of vessel”).


pot

fro-noun

pot oblique singular, m (oblique plural poz or potz, nominative singular poz or potz, nominative plural pot)

pot oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
poz (oblique plural)
potz (oblique plural)
poz (nominative singular)
potz (nominative singular)
pot (nominative plural)

→ English: pot

French: pot

Norman: pot

Asturian: pota

Galician: pota

From Vulgar Latin pottum, pottus (“pot, jar”), from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a kind of vessel”). More at pot.


pot

third-person singular present indicative of poeir

French: peut


pot

pot (nominative singular)
poty (nominative plural)
potu (genitive singular)
potów (genitive plural)
potowi (dative singular)
potom (dative plural)
pot (accusative singular)
poty (accusative plural)
potem (instrumental singular)
potami (instrumental plural)
pocie (locative singular)
potach (locative plural)
pocie (singular vocative)
poty (plural vocative)


pot

poturi (plural)
pot (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
potul (accusative definite nominative singular)
poturi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
poturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
pot (indefinite singular)
potului (definite singular)
poturi (indefinite plural)
poturilor (definite plural)
potule (singular vocative)
poturilor (plural vocative)


pot

te pot vedea, prostule.

first-person singular present indicative of putea

am să pot să merg cu tine mâine dimineață

I'll be able to go with you tomorrow morning.

first-person singular present subjunctive of putea

calmează-te, nu pot să-ți străbată gândul.

third-person plural present indicative of putea


pot

pȍt (canonical masculine)
по̏т (Cyrillic)


pot

Pot je trajala več dni.

(inanimate) career (general course of action or conduct in life)

(animate, obsolete, only masculine) messenger

(animate, historical, only masculine) a mediator who buys things in other towns on demand

(inanimate, rare) time (instance or occurrence)

pọ́t f or (animate canonical inanimate masculine)
pọ̄t (nominative singular)
potȋ (dual nominative)
potȋ (nominative plural)
potȋ (genitive singular)
potī (dual genitive)
potī (genitive plural)
pọ́ti (dative singular)
potẹ̄ma (dative dual)
potẹ̄m (dative plural)
pọ̑t (accusative singular)
potȋ (accusative dual)
potȋ (accusative plural)
pọ́ti (locative singular)
potẹ́h (dual locative)
potẹ́h (locative plural)
potjọ́ (instrumental singular)
pọ̑tjo (instrumental singular)
potẹ̄ma (dual instrumental)
potmí (instrumental plural)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)
potȋ (dual vocative)
potȋ (plural vocative)
pọ̄t (nominative singular)
pọ̑ti (dual nominative)
pọ̑ta (nominative plural)
potȋ (genitive singular)
potī (dual genitive)
pọ̑tov (dual genitive)
potī (genitive plural)
pọ̑tov (genitive plural)
pọ́ti (dative singular)
pọ̑toma (dative dual)
pọ̑tama (dative dual)
pọ̑tom (dative plural)
pọ̑tam (dative plural)
pọ̑t (accusative singular)
pọ̑ti (accusative dual)
pọ̑ta (accusative plural)
pọ́ti (locative singular)
pọ̑tih (dual locative)
pọ̑tih (locative plural)
potjọ́ (instrumental singular)
pọ̑tjo (instrumental singular)
pọ̑toma (dual instrumental)
pọ̑tama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ti (instrumental plural)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)
pọ̑ti (dual vocative)
pọ̑ta (plural vocative)
pọ́t (nominative singular)
pọ̑ti (dual nominative)
pọ̑ta (nominative plural)
pọ́ta (genitive singular)
potī (dual genitive)
pọ̑tov (dual genitive)
potī (genitive plural)
pọ̑tov (genitive plural)
pọ́tu (dative singular)
pọ́ti (dative singular)
pọ̑toma (dative dual)
pọ̑tama (dative dual)
pọ̑tom (dative plural)
pọ̑tam (dative plural)
pọ́t (accusative singular)
pọ̑ti (accusative dual)
pọ̑ta (accusative plural)
pọ́tu (locative singular)
pọ́ti (locative singular)
pọ̑tih (dual locative)
pọ̑tih (locative plural)
pọ́tom (instrumental singular)
pọ̑toma (dual instrumental)
pọ̑tama (dual instrumental)
pọ̑ti (instrumental plural)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)
pọ̑ti (dual vocative)
pọ̑ta (plural vocative)
pọ́t (nominative singular)
pọ́ta (dual nominative)
pọ́ti (nominative plural)
pọ́ta (genitive singular)
pọ̄tov (dual genitive)
pọ̄tov (genitive plural)
pọ́tu (dative singular)
pọ́ti (dative singular)
pọ́toma (dative dual)
pọ́tama (dative dual)
pọ́tom (dative plural)
pọ́tam (dative plural)
pọ́t (accusative singular)
pọ́ta (accusative dual)
pọ́te (accusative plural)
pọ́tu (locative singular)
pọ́ti (locative singular)
pọ̄tih (dual locative)
pọ̄tah (dual locative)
pọ̄tih (locative plural)
pọ̄tah (locative plural)
pọ́tom (instrumental singular)
pọ́toma (dual instrumental)
pọ́tama (dual instrumental)
pọ̄ti (instrumental plural)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)
pọ̑ta (dual vocative)
pọ̑ti (plural vocative)
pọ́t (nominative singular)
pọ́ta (dual nominative)
pọ́ti (nominative plural)
pọ́ta (genitive singular)
pọ̄tov (dual genitive)
pọ̄tov (genitive plural)
pọ́tu (dative singular)
pọ́ti (dative singular)
pọ́toma (dative dual)
pọ́tama (dative dual)
pọ́tom (dative plural)
pọ́tam (dative plural)
pọ́ta (accusative singular)
pọ́ta (accusative dual)
pọ́te (accusative plural)
pọ́tu (locative singular)
pọ́ti (locative singular)
pọ̄tih (dual locative)
pọ̄tah (dual locative)
pọ̄tih (locative plural)
pọ̄tah (locative plural)
pọ́tom (instrumental singular)
pọ́toma (dual instrumental)
pọ́tama (dual instrumental)
pọ̄ti (instrumental plural)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)
pọ̑ta (dual vocative)
pọ̑ti (plural vocative)

sl-infl-noun

* usual for inanimate senses, except for sense 'career' (but still possible)

* stylistically marked for most inanimate senses, but more common for sense 'career'

can also be acute in the nominative and accusative singular, neuter in dual and plural following the first declension

From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.


pot

pọ̑t (canonical inanimate masculine)
pọ̑t (nominative singular)
potȗ (genitive singular)
pọ̑tu (dative singular)
pọ̑ti (dative singular)
pọ̑t (accusative singular)
pọ̑tu (locative singular)
pọ̑ti (locative singular)
pọ̑tom (instrumental singular)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)
pọ̑t (nominative singular)
pọ̑ta (genitive singular)
pọ̑tu (dative singular)
pọ̑ti (dative singular)
pọ̑t (accusative singular)
pọ̑tu (locative singular)
pọ̑ti (locative singular)
pọ̑tom (instrumental singular)
pọ̑t (singular vocative)

From Proto-Slavic *potъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *paktas, from Proto-Indo-European *pokʷtós.


pot

(archaic) A unit of volume: 1 pot, the volume of 16 kg of water

(archaic) A unit of weight: 1 pot = 40 qadaq = 16.380 kg

pot (nominative)
potnıñ (genitive)
potqa (dative)
potnı (accusative)
potta (locative)
pottan (ablative)


pot

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Potawatomi.

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