klot

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klôt/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German glatt (“smooth”).

Alternative forms

• klȁt
• glȁt

Adjective

klȍt (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т) (Vojvodina)

1. basic, undecorated
2. unseasoned, ungarnished
3. (knitting) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   Coordinate term: fr̀kēt

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English cloth.

Alternative forms

• klòta

Noun

klȍt m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling кло̏т)

1. broadcloth

Further reading

• “klot”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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

• Audio:

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Noun

klot n

1. a solid (large) ball, often harder than a boll
2. (mathematics) ball; the set of points in a metric space of distance less than (or equal to) a given number.
3. (bookbinding) buckram (stiff cloth used in book covers)

Declension

Declension of klot

		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

• boll
• kula
• sfär

References

• “klot”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “klot”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “klot”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• 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

• tolk

Volapük

Noun

klot (genitive klota, plural klots)

1. a dress (in general)
2. a garment
3. clothing, clothes

Declension

Declension of klot

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	klot	klots
Genitive	klota	klotas
Dative	klote	klotes
Accusative	kloti	klotis
Predicative1	klotu	klotus
Vocative	o klot	o klots

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

See also

• kloted