trot

trot
\ \ [13] Trots closest English relative is probably tread. It was borrowed from Old French troter, which went back via Vulgar Latin *trottāre to a Frankish *trottōn. This seems to have been derived from the same Germanic base as produced English tread. The colloquial use of the noun fordiarrhoeadates from the early 19th centuryoriginally in the singular, but since at least the early 20th century in the plural, the trots.
\ \ Cf.TREAD

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  • trot — trot …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • trot — [ tro ] n. m. • XIIe; subst. verb. de trotter 1 ♦ Allure naturelle du cheval et de quelques quadrupèdes, intermédiaire entre le pas et le galop, et dans laquelle les membres oscillent par paires croisées (par exemple l antérieur gauche avec le… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • trot — TROT. s. m. Alleure des bestes de voiture entre le pas & le galop. Grand trot. petit trot. aller le trot. aller au trot. il faut mettre ce cheval au trot. le trot est trop rude …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Trot — may mean: *Trot (music), a genre of Korean pop music *Trot (horse gait)*A trotline *A literal translation of a foreign text *A mildly negative epithet for Trotskyist *Trot (Oz), a character from the Oz books of L. Frank Baum *Trot Nixon,… …   Wikipedia

  • Trot — Trot, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trotting}.] [OE. trotten, OF. troter, F. trotter; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tread; cf. OHG. trott?n to tread. See {Tread}.] 1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Trot — Trot, n. [F. See {Trot}, v. i.] 1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. The limbs move… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • trot — s. n. Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic  TROT s.n. (Echit.) Scurt, liniştit şi ritmic. [< fr. trot]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 23.10.2005. Sursa: DN  TROT s. n. trap scurt, liniştit şi ritmic. (< fr. trot) …   Dicționar Român

  • Trot — Trot, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. [1913 Webster] {To trot out}, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • trot — (n.) c.1300, from O.Fr. trot (12c.), from troter to trot, to go, from Frankish *trotton (Cf. O.H.G. trotton to tread ), from a variant of the Germanic base of TREAD (Cf. tread) (q.v.). The verb is attested in English from mid 14c. Italian… …   Etymology dictionary

  • tròt — trot m. trot ; allure de cheval > Anar au tròt : aller au trot …   Diccionari Personau e Evolutiu

  • trot — ► VERB (trotted, trotting) 1) (of a horse) proceed at a pace faster than a walk, lifting each diagonal pair of legs alternately. 2) (of a person) run at a moderate pace with short steps. 3) informal go or walk briskly. 4) (trot out) informal… …   English terms dictionary

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