different between potto vs pott

English

Etymology

From a West African language; compare Akan ap?s?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?t??/

Noun

potto (plural pottos)

1. A small primate, Perodicticus potto, native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. [from 18th c.]
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 147:

     The forest hangs round them like a theater curtain, mist rising from the water, half-drowned things – jackals, monkeys, pottos, bushpigs – wading along with them, looking dazed and bearish.

2. (now rare) The kinkajou. [from 18th c.]

Derived terms

• false potto, Martin's false potto (Pseudopotto martini)

Translations

Italian

Noun

potto

1. potto (Perodicticus potto)

   Synonym: Bosman's potto

English

Etymology 1

Noun

pott (plural potts)

1. Obsolete form of pot.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Possibly from originally bearing a watermark of a pot or from a manufacturer's or merchant's name.

Noun

pott (uncountable)

1. An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

   pott paper

Anagrams

• T-top, TOTP, topt

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German pot, put.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pot??/

Noun

pott (genitive poti, partitive potti)

1. pot

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

pott

1. indefinite accusative singular of pottur

Middle English

Noun

pott

1. Alternative form of pot

Swedish

Noun

pott c

1. (in gambling:) pot, kitty

Westrobothnian

Noun

pott m

1. pool

Derived terms

• vötopott (“puddle”)
• djyripott (“mud pit”)

See also

• putt

References