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Clipping of English Potawatomi.

pot

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

Cooking pot on a stove.

Middle English pot

English pot

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 (plural pots)

  1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
    Synonyms: cookpot, cooking pot
    1. (preceded by definite article) The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
      • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143:
        Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.
  2. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
    1. A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
    2. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
    3. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
        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.
    4. A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
      Synonyms: can, chamber pot, potty, shitpot; see also Thesaurus:chamber pot
      Shit or get off the pot.
      • 2011, Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek, page 204:
        “Clinton,” Gail cried from outside, “are you going to sit on the pot all day?”
      • 2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s Pain, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (Learning, Marriage, and Stuff), page 385:
        Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot. My “routine” is at night so as to shorten the morning get readies and start work on time. Sometimes the p.m. pot routine is successful, sometimes not. I can only blame myself, of course, when the big event doesn’t occur. I need to drink more water during the day.
      • 2023 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Let’s Talk About the Bathroom Scene”, in The New York Times Book Review‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2023:
        Alfred Hitchcock once told François Truffaut he wanted to make a film that would examine a city entirely through food and, unusually, waste. […] Samuel Beckett expressed this artistic vision on a more intimate scale. “Dish and pot, dish and pot, these are the poles,” his narrator says in “Malone Dies.” The dish, we discuss freely: Food, in literature and elsewhere, is part of what we talk about when we talk about culture. The pot, at the other end of the alimentary canal, remains a transgressive topic.
    5. A crucible: a melting pot.
    6. (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
      Synonyms: lobster pot, lobster trap
    7. A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
    8. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
    9. (obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
      • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:
        "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."
    10. (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
      Synonyms: (New South Wales, Western Australia) middy, (South Australia) schooner
      • 2009, Deborah Penrith et al., Live & Work in Australia, page 187:
        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.
  3. (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
    Rowten Pot
  4. A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
  5. (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
  6. (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
  7. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:
      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...
  8. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
  9. (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.
    Synonyms: kitty, pool
  10. An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
    a pension pot
    a savings pot
  11. (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
  12. (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
  1. (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
  1. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
  2. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

Whether a saucepan is a type of pot, a type of pan, or neither, depends on the speaker's taxonomy of cookware. There are three competing ways of drawing distinctions, all widespread: (1) pots and pans are distinguished by their depth and use, in which case a saucepan is actually a pot despite its name, (2) pots and pans are distinguished by type and/or number of handles, in which case a saucepan is in fact a pan, and (3) both vessel depth and handles are distinguishing features, in which case saucepans form a separate third class that is sibling to pots and pans. Scheme (1) is most widespread in the US and US-influenced parts of Canada, whereas (2) is more typical of the UK and Commonwealth countries; (3) does not split as cleanly along these regional lines.

Due to their typical shallowness, sauciers may be considered pans, not pots, even by those who label saucepans as pots.

vessel for cooking or storing food etc.

unit of volume notionally equivalent to the capacity of a pot

money wagered

iron hat

protruding belly

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

perforated cask for draining sugar

coffeepot, teapot

vessel for cooking pig feeds

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

  1. To put (something) into a pot.
    to pot a plant
  2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
    potted meat
  3. (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
  4. (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
  5. (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
    The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
  6. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
    • 1897, Encyclopaedia of Sport:
      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.
  7. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
  8. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
  9. (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
  10. (obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.
  1. (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
  1. (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
  1. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
  2. To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
  1. (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).

put (something) into a pot

preserve

cause a ball to fall into a pocket

cue sports: be capable of being potted

send someone to jail expeditiously

seat a child onto a potty

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 (uncountable)

  1. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
    • 1968 July, Shel Silverstein, “Silverstein's Hippies”, in Playboy Magazine, page 189:
      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!

marijuana

Clipping of potentiometer.

pot (plural pots)

  1. (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.

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

  1. (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
    • 1999, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-engineers, page 23:
      While the announcer is talking, the select switch on the mixing board for the microphone input is selected, and the microphone is “potted up.”

Clipping of potion.

pot (plural pots)

  1. (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.

pot

  1. to train, teach

From Dutch pot, from Middle Dutch pot.

pot (plural potte)

  1. pot; jar

From Romance *pottus (“pot”).

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

  1. mill-hopper, flower-bin
  2. little boy

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

pot (third-person singular poati or poate, participle pututã)

  1. can, could, to be able to

pot inan

  1. kiss

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 m (plural pots)

  1. jar, canister, vessel
  2. jackpot

pot

  1. third-person singular present indicative of poder

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

pot m inan

  1. sweat

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

pot m (plural potten, diminutive potje n)

  1. jar, pot, solid container
  2. (Belgium) cooking pot
    Synonym: kookpot
  3. kitty or pool (where stakes, etc., are centralized)
  4. (Netherlands, vulgar) loo, crapper (toilet)
    Synonym: toiletpot

Clipping of lollepot.

pot f (plural potten, diminutive potje n)

  1. (derogatory) dyke (lesbian)
    Synonyms: lesbienne, lesbo, lesbi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pot

  1. inflection of potten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

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 m (plural pots)

  1. pot, jar, vase, tin, can, carton (a container of any of various materials)
    (with à indicates intended use): pot à épices — spice jar
    (with de indicates either actual/current use...): pot d’eau — vase of water
    (...or material): pot de verre — (glass) jar
  2. cooking pot (any vessel used to cook food)
  3. (cooking) dish
  4. (childish) potty (the pot used when toilet-training children)
  5. (colloquial) drink, jar, bevvy (alcoholic beverage)
  6. (colloquial) do (UK), bash, drinks party (a small, informal party or celebration)
  7. (card games) pot, kitty, pool (money staked at cards, etc.)
  8. (informal) luck (success; chance occurrence, especially when favourable)
  9. (wine) a half-litre bottle or measure of wine
  10. a pre-metric unit of measure, equivalent to 1.5 litres
  11. a paper size, about 40 by 31 cm
  12. (slang, vulgar) arse, ass (the buttocks)

Borrowed from English pot.

pot m (uncountable)

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

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

pot (plural **pot-pot)

  1. pot (a vessel used to hold soil for growing plants)
  2. ellipsis of pispot

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] (“a certain game of marbles”, literally “pot”).

pot (plural **pot-pot)

  1. a variation of the marble game, played by at least two people, using a triangular image as a place for the marbles being bet on, played by the players

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

pot

  1. I can, am able to.

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

pot m

  1. pot, jar
  2. can, jug

Strong masculine noun

| | singular | plural | | | ----------- | ------ | ------ | | nominative | pot | potte | | accusative | pot | potte | | genitive | pots | potte | | dative | potte | potten |

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

pot (plural pottes)

  1. A pot; a circular receptacle or vessel:
    1. A cookpot (a pot used for cooking in)
    2. A pot used for storing substances (especially food or water)
    3. A pot used for ladling or serving liquids; a beaker.
    4. A measurement for the quantity of liquids.
    5. A pot of a certain material or manufacture:
      1. A ceramic pot or vessel.
      2. A pot or vessel made out of metal.
  2. (rare) The top of the skull.
  3. (rare) A shard of earthen material.

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 m (plural pots)

  1. (Jersey) pot
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[3], pages 530-31:
      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.
      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.

pot m

  1. alternative form of pott

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

  1. pot (storage/cooking vessel)

see poeir.

pot

  1. third-person singular present indicative of poeir

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pȍtъ.

pot m inan

  1. sweat

Borrowed from French pot.

pot n (plural poturi)

  1. (card games) pot

pot

  1. first-person singular present indicative of putea
    te pot vedea, prostule. ― I can see you, idiot.
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of putea
    am să pot să merg cu tine mâine dimineață ― I'll be able to go with you tomorrow morning.
  3. third-person plural present indicative of putea
    calmează-te, nu pot să-ți străbată gândul. ― calm down, **they can'**t read your mind.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *potъ. First attested in the 16th century.

pȍt m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̏т)

  1. (regional) sweat
    Synonym: znȏj

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

pọ́t f or m inan or m anim

  1. (inanimate) way, path
    Synonym: potka
  2. (inanimate) trip, journey
    Synonyms: potovanje, cestovanje, popotovanje, rajža, vandranje
    Pot je trajala več dni. ― The trip lasted for multiple days.
  3. (inanimate, physics) distance
  4. (inanimate) way (method or manner)
    Synonyms: način, postopek, pristop
  5. (inanimate) career (general course of action or conduct in life)
    Synonym: kariera
  6. (animate, obsolete, only masculine) messenger
    Synonyms: brzotek, glasnik, kurir, sel, novičar, poročnik
  7. (animate, historical, only masculine) a mediator who buys things in other towns on demand
    Synonym: potovec
  8. (inanimate, rare) time (instance or occurrence)
    Synonyms: bart, -krat

The masculine gender is nowadays obsolete, except in some collocations, e.g. križev pot. For animate senses, however, it is the only possible gender.

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Second feminine declension (i-stem) , long mixed accent, can also be acute in the nominative and accusative singular
nom. sing. pọ̄t
gen. sing. potȋ
singular dual plural
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ̄t potȋ potȋ
genitiverodȋlnik potȋ potī potī
dativedajȃlnik pọ́ti potẹ̄ma potẹ̄m
accusativetožȋlnik pọ̑t potȋ potȋ
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ́ti potẹ́h potẹ́h
instrumentalorọ̑dnik potjọ́, pọ̑tjo+prep. potẹ̄ma potmí
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t potȋ potȋ

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Second feminine declension (i-stem) , long mixed accent, can also be acute in the nominative and accusative singular, neuter in dual and plural following the first declension
nom. sing. pọ̄t
gen. sing. potȋ
singular dual plural
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ̄t pọ̑ti pọ̑ta
genitiverodȋlnik potȋ potī, pọ̑tov potī, pọ̑tov
dativedajȃlnik pọ́ti pọ̑toma, pọ̑tama pọ̑tom, pọ̑tam
accusativetožȋlnik pọ̑t pọ̑ti pọ̑ta
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ́ti pọ̑tih pọ̑tih
instrumentalorọ̑dnik potjọ́, pọ̑tjo+prep. pọ̑toma, pọ̑tama pọ̑ti
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t pọ̑ti pọ̑ta
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent, can also be acute in the nominative and accusative singular, neuter in dual and plural following the first declension
nom. sing. pọ́t
gen. sing. pọ́ta
singular dual plural
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ́t pọ̑ti pọ̑ta
genitiverodȋlnik pọ́ta potī, pọ̑tov potī, pọ̑tov
dativedajȃlnik pọ́tu, pọ́ti pọ̑toma, pọ̑tama pọ̑tom, pọ̑tam
accusativetožȋlnik pọ́t pọ̑ti pọ̑ta
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ́tu, pọ́ti pọ̑tih pọ̑tih
instrumentalorọ̑dnik pọ́tom pọ̑toma, pọ̑tama pọ̑ti
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t pọ̑ti pọ̑ta
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent
nom. sing. pọ́t
gen. sing. pọ́ta
singular dual plural
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ́t pọ́ta pọ́ti
genitiverodȋlnik pọ́ta pọ̄tov pọ̄tov
dativedajȃlnik pọ́tu, pọ́ti pọ́toma, pọ́tama pọ́tom, pọ́tam
accusativetožȋlnik pọ́t pọ́ta pọ́te
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ́tu, pọ́ti pọ̄tih, pọ̄tah pọ̄tih, pọ̄tah
instrumentalorọ̑dnik pọ́tom pọ́toma, pọ́tama pọ̄ti
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t pọ̑ta pọ̑ti
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, animate) , fixed accent
nom. sing. pọ́t
gen. sing. pọ́ta
singular dual plural
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ́t pọ́ta pọ́ti
genitiverodȋlnik pọ́ta pọ̄tov pọ̄tov
dativedajȃlnik pọ́tu, pọ́ti pọ́toma, pọ́tama pọ́tom, pọ́tam
accusativetožȋlnik pọ́ta pọ́ta pọ́te
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ́tu, pọ́ti pọ̄tih, pọ̄tah pọ̄tih, pọ̄tah
instrumentalorọ̑dnik pọ́tom pọ́toma, pọ́tama pọ̄ti
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t pọ̑ta pọ̑ti

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

pọ̑t m inan

  1. sweat
    Synonyms: znoj, rosa
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , long mixed accent, ending -u in genitive singular (singularia tantum)
nom. sing. pọ̑t
gen. sing. potȗ
singular
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ̑t
genitiverodȋlnik potȗ
dativedajȃlnik pọ̑tu, pọ̑ti
accusativetožȋlnik pọ̑t
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ̑tu, pọ̑ti
instrumentalorọ̑dnik pọ̑tom
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t
First masculine declension (hard o-stem, inanimate) , fixed accent (singularia tantum)
nom. sing. pọ̑t
gen. sing. pọ̑ta
singular
nominativeimenovȃlnik pọ̑t
genitiverodȋlnik pọ̑ta
dativedajȃlnik pọ̑tu, pọ̑ti
accusativetožȋlnik pọ̑t
locativemẹ̑stnik pọ̑tu, pọ̑ti
instrumentalorọ̑dnik pọ̑tom
(vocative)(ogȏvorni imenovȃlnik) pọ̑t

pot

  1. (archaic) A unit of volume: 1 pot, the volume of 16 kg of water
  2. (archaic) A unit of weight: 1 pot = 40 qadaq = 16.380 kg

From English port.

pot

  1. port

Borrowed from Middle Welsh pot.

pot m (plural potiau or potau, diminutive potyn)

  1. pot, jar
    Synonyms: llestr, jar

Borrowed from English pot, from Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya (“cannabis leaves”).

pot m (uncountable)

  1. pot, cannabis
    Synonyms: mariwana, canabis, cywarch

pot f

  1. feminine singular of pwt (“tiny, short, puny”)