loti

From the Latin lōtī, the nominative plural form of lōtus (“Egyptian lotus flower”, “date-plum”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōʹtī, IPA^(key): /ˈləʊtaɪ/

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loti

1. plural of lotus

From the Sotho loti, singular derivation of maloti, mulati (“mountains”); compare Maloti.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lōʹti, lo͞oʹti, IPA^(key): /ˈləʊti/, /ˈluːti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation) Rhymes: -əʊti, -uːti

loti (plural loti or maloti or lotis)

1. The basic monetary unit of the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho, introduced in 1980 to replace the South African rand as legal tender.
2. A coin or banknote betokening a value in (ma)loti.

• sente

• “loti, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Third Edition, 2015]

•   Lesotho loti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -itol, TOIL, ilot, toil

• IPA^(key): [ˈloti]

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• Rhymes: -oti
• Hyphenation: lo‧ti

loti (present lotas, past lotis, future lotos, conditional lotus, volitive lotu)

1. (intransitive) to draw lots

• loto (“a lot”)
• lotumi (“to allot”)

• aŭkcio (“auction”)
• loterio (“lottery”)

loti (feminine lotie, masculine plural lotis, feminine plural loties)

1. past participle of lotir

• “loti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

loti m

1. plural of loto

• -lito, lito-

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈloː.tiː/, [ˈɫ̪oːt̪iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.ti/, [ˈlɔːt̪i]

See lōtus (“Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea”, “Diospyros lotus”, “Ziziphus lotus”, second-declension masculine noun).

lōtī m

1. inflection of lōtus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

• English: loti

See lōtium (“urine”, second-declension neuter noun).

lōtī n

1. genitive singular of lōtium

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to bark, to howl”)^[1]

• Compare Polish łajać (“to scold”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɫoːtʲɪ/

lóti (third-person present tense lója, third-person past tense lójo)^[3]

1. (intransitive) to bark^[4]

• skalyti

(Nouns)

• lojìmas m

• kaukti, riaumoti, staugti, stūgauti, urgzti

Borrowed from Spanish zopilote, from a Nahuan language.

loti

1. turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)

• Aguilar Feria, Martimiana, García Rojas, Vicente, Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Saꞌan Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 246

loti

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of lyta