ro -tとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 roten, rotten, from 古期英語 rotian (“to rot, become corrupted, ulcerate, putrefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *rotēn, from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rŏt IPA: /ɹɒt/
• (General American) IPA: /ɹɑt/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ɹɔt/
• Homophone: wrought (cot–caught merger)
• 韻: -ɒt

動詞

rot (third-person singular simple present rots, present participle rotting, simple past and past participle rotted)

1. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

   The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.

   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

2. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.

   Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!

3. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
4. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

   to rot vegetable fiber

5. (intransitive, figurative) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place or state).

   to rot in prison

   to rot in Hell

   If I hadn't rotted in bed all day I would've come...

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs:

     Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.

6. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
7. (dated, slang) To talk nonsense.
   • 1894, H. G. Wells, The Hammerpond Park Burglary:

     “Did they hang you well?” said Porson.
     “Don’t rot,” said Mr Watkins; “I don’t like it.”

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:

     Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’

同意語

• putrefy
• molder

名詞

rot (countable and uncountable, plural rots)

1. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
2. Decaying matter.
   • 2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115:

     When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.

3. (chiefly in compounds) Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
   • 1658–1663, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

4. (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.

   You're talking rot! I don't believe a word.

同意語

• (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense

派生語

アナグラム

• ORT, OTR, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, ort, tor

形容詞

rōt (comparative rōtra, superlative rōtost)

1. glad, cheerful
2. noble, great

語形変化

名詞

rot

1. alternative form of rote (“root”)

語源 2

動詞

rot

1. alternative form of roten (“to rot”)

語源 3

A back-formation from roten (“to rot”).

別の表記

• rote, root, rotte, rott

発音

• IPA: /rɔt/, /rɔːt/

名詞

rot (uncountable)

1. Rotting or decomposition; the situation where something rots.
2. Any disease which causes decaying and decomposition in humans.
3. A disease that afflicts sheep; footrot, the rot.

派生した語

• English: rot

参照

• “rō̆t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 24 February 2019.

名詞

rot.

1. Abbreviation of rotula, rotulus, etc., scroll, roll

派生語