rot
pronunciation
How to pronounce rot in British English:
UK [rɒt]
How to pronounce rot in American English:
US [rɑːt]
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- Noun:
- decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- (biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
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- Verb:
- break down
- waste away
Word Origin
- rot
- rot: [OE] Rot goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *rutjan, which also produced Dutch rotten. It may be related ultimately to Latin rudis ‘rough’, source of English rude. The adjective rotten [13] was borrowed from Old Norse rotinn, which came from the same Germanic stem as produced *rutjan. The mild imprecation drat [19] is a conflation of God and rot.=> rude
- rot (v.)
- Old English rotian "to decay, putrefy," from Proto-Germanic *rutjan (cognates: Old Saxon roton, Old Norse rotna, Old Frisian rotia, Middle Dutch roten, Dutch rotten, Old High German rozzen "to rot," German rößen "to steep flax"), from stem *rut-. Related: Rotted; rotting.
- rot (n.)
- early 14c., from rot (v.) or of Scandinavian origin (compare Icelandic rot, Swedish röta, Danish røde "decay, putrefaction"), from the root of the verb. Slang noun sense of "rubbish, trash" is from 1848.
Example
- 1. They rot , collapse or are eaten by sandworms .
- 2. Prevent data loss due to bit rot ?
- 3. Perhaps that is because rim sees little rot to stop .
- 4. And the involvement of stablemasters suggests rot at the top .
- 5. Layard may have a point , but I suspect the rot may go deeper still .