grot vs grotto what difference

what is difference between grot and grotto

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɒt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

From grotto, by shortening, or French grotte.

Noun

grot (plural grots)

1. (poetic) A grotto.
   • 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:

     She took me to her elfin grot, / And there she wept, and sigh’d full sore, / And there I shut her wild wild eyes / With kisses four.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from grotty.

Noun

grot (countable and uncountable, plural grots) (Britain)

1. (slang, uncountable) Any unpleasant substance or material.
2. (slang, countable) A miserable person.

Anagrams

• trog

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch grot, either directly from Italian grotta or indirectly via French grotte, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χrɔt/

Noun

grot (plural grotte, diminutive grotjie)

1. cave, cavern

   Synonym: spelonk

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed directly from Italian grotta or indirectly via French grotte, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós). Doublet of crypte, krocht, and gruft.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣrɔt/
• Hyphenation: grot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

grot f (plural grotten, diminutive grotje n)

1. cave, cavern

Synonyms

• spelonk

Derived terms

• grotbewoner
• grotschildering
• grotspelonk
• grottenbeer
• grottenhyena
• grottenleeuw
• ijsgrot
• lavagrot

Related terms

• crypte
• krocht

Descendants

• Afrikaans: grot

Anagrams

• trog

Luxembourgish

Adjective

grot

1. neuter nominative of gro
2. neuter accusative of gro

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą.

Alternative forms

• grotte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔːt/, /ɡrɔt/

Noun

grot (plural grotes)

1. groat

Descendants

• English: groat
• Yola: gurt, grut

References

• “grō̆t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “grōtes, n.(2) plural.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch groot.

Alternative forms

• groot, grote, groote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔːt/

Noun

grot (plural grotes or grottes)

1. A groat or other silver coin of similar value, traditionally worth four pennies, or the weight corresponding to that coin.

Descendants

• English: groat
• Yola: grate

References

• “grōt, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-22.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grautaz.

Adjective

grōt

1. big, large
2. great

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: grôot
  • Dutch: groot
    • Afrikaans: groot
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: groto
    • Jersey Dutch: x’rôt
    • Negerhollands: groot, grooto, guṅgu, gro
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: gungu (dated)
    • Petjo: groot
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: groat
  • Limburgish: groeat
  • Zealandic: groôt

Further reading

• “grōt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrot/

Noun

grot n

1. particle
2. fragment

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: grot, grotte
  • English: groat
  • Yola: gurt, grut

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *grautaz, whence Old English great.

Adjective

grōt (comparative grōtoro, superlative grōtost)

1. great

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: grôt
  • Low German: groot
    • German Low German: groot; graut (Münsterländisch)

      Plautdietsch: groot

  • → Westrobothnian: grótt

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrɔt/

Noun

grot m inan

1. arrowhead

Declension

Noun

grot m inan

1. mainsail

Declension

Noun

grot f

1. genitive plural of grota

Further reading

• grot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Italian grotta, from Vulgar Latin grupta, from Classical Latin crypta. Doublet of crypt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɒt.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɑ.toʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɒtəʊ

Noun

grotto (plural grottos or grottoes)

1. A small cave.
2. An artificial cavern-like retreat.
3. A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
4. A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
   • 1987, National Speleological Society, NSS News, vol. 45-46, p.331:

     An earlier attempt to organize a grotto in the Indiana, PA, area in the mid-1970s failed to succeed, but from it developed the informal Chestnut Ridge Explorers Association.
5. (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.

Derived terms

• grot
• Santa’s grotto

Translations

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