trot

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /tɹɑt/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹɒt/ Rhymes: -ɒt === Etymology 1 === From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread. ==== Noun ==== trot (plural trots) A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run. A brisk journey or progression. (chiefly of horses) A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together). A toddler. [From 1854.] 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories. (dance) A moderately rapid dance. (obsolete) A young animal. [From 1895.] (archaic, derogatory) An ugly old woman, a hag. [From 1362.] (Australia, obsolete) A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up. (Australia, New Zealand, with "good" or "bad") A run of luck or fortune. (dated, slang, among students) Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid) (informal, as 'the trots') Diarrhoea. ===== Synonyms ===== (gait of an animal between walk and canter): (ugly old woman): See Thesaurus:old woman (gait of a person faster than a walk): jog ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trotting, simple past and past participle trotted) (intransitive) To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run. 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv: I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart. c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane: They sent little Jane to the garden to play, But she opened the gate, and then trotted away Under the hawthorns and down the green lane, Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane! (intransitive, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter. (transitive) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods. ===== Synonyms ===== (to walk rapidly): jog, pace See also Thesaurus:walk, Thesaurus:run ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Short for foxtrot, whose rhythms influenced the genre. ==== Noun ==== trot (uncountable) A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections. ===== Synonyms ===== ppongjjak === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== trot (plural trots) Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”). === References === === Anagrams === -tort, ROTT, Rott, TRTO, tort == Catalan == === Etymology === Deverbal from trotar. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern) [ˈtɾo̞t] IPA(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈtɾɔt] === Noun === trot m (plural trots) trot (gait) === Further reading === “trot”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “trot”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French trot, troter, from Medieval Latin trottare, of Germanic origin. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tʁo/ IPA(key): /tʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium) Homophone: trop === Noun === trot m (plural trots) trot === Further reading === “trot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === tort == Scots == === Etymology === From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [trɔt], [trot] === Verb === trot (third-person singular simple present trots, present participle trottin, simple past and past participle trottit) to move at a quick steady pace to flow rapidly and noisily, purl, ripple (of water) ==== Derived terms ==== trottle-caur (“a low vehicle for moving hay”) (Ulster) === Noun === trot (plural trots) a short, quick pace the fall, angle, or run on a drain ==== Derived terms ==== jeoparty trot (“a quick motion between running and walking”) job-trot (“a slow, monotonous or easy going pace, the settled routine or way of doing things”) short in the trot (“short-tempered”) == Slovene == === Etymology === From Proto-Slavic *trǫtъ. First attested in the 18th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tróːt/ === Noun === trọ̑t m anim drone (male bee) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “trot”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026 == Torres Strait Creole == === Etymology === From English throat. === Noun === trot throat