loto

loto

1. Archaic form of lotto.
   • 1857, Lectures delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association: Volume 12, page 96:

     The President of the High Consistory, Arnold, called the loto a disgraceful impost, by which the State deceived the credulous.

• OOTL, loot, tool

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dóot.

loto

1. to dream

From -lota (“to dream”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɽó.to/

lóto class 6

1. dream

Borrowed from Italian lotto.

• IPA^(key): /lo.to/, /lɔ.to/

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loto m (plural lotos)

1. lotto

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

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: lò‧to

loto m (plural loti)

1. lotus

• lotiforme

• lòto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Inherited from Latin lutum, derived from luō (“to wash, cleanse”). Doublet of luto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.to/
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: ló‧to

• luto (borrowed)

loto m (plural loti) (archaic, literary)

1. mud

   Synonyms: fango, melma

2. clay

   Synonyms: argilla, creta

• lóto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫoː.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɔː.to]

lōtō

1. dative/ablative singular of lōtus

• "loto", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Borrowed from Bangi loto.

loto

1. to dream

From luto, compare Cebuano luto.

loto

1. to cook

From French auto.

loto

1. car

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Māori roto, Tongan loto).

loto

1. inside; interior

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

• Hyphenation: lo‧to

loto m (plural lotos)

1. (botany) lotus

   Synonym: lótus

• lotófago

Borrowed from Italian lotto.

• Hyphenation: lo‧to

loto m (plural lotos)

1. (games) lotto

   Synonym: quino

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: lo‧to

loto

1. first-person singular present indicative of lotar

• “loto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “loto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French loto.

loto n (plural lotouri)

1. lotto

Borrowed from French l'auto (“the car”).

loto

1. car

• D'Offay, Danielle; Lionnet, Guy (1982), Diksyonner kreol-franse [Creole-French Dictionary] (in French), Hamburg: Buske, →ISBN
• Seychelles Creole vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

From Latin lotus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloto/ [ˈlo.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: lo‧to

loto m (plural lotos)

1. lotus

• “loto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Dutch lood, from Middle Dutch lôot, from Old Dutch *lōt, from Proto-West Germanic *laud, possibly borrowed from Gaulish *loudon, from Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom (“lead”), from Proto-Indo-European *plowdʰo- (“lead”).

loto

1. lead (metal)

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Māori roto, Tongan loto).

loto

1. lake

• IPA^(key): [ˈlo.to]
• Hyphenation: lo‧to

From Proto-Polynesian *loto. Cognates include Tongan loto and Samoan loto.

loto

1. courage
2. thoughts, wishes (on a certain topic)

loto (plural loloto)

1. (transitive) to want; to wish
2. (transitive) to agree; to concur

From Proto-Polynesian *loto. Cognates include Hawaiian loko and Samoan loto.

loto

1. lake
2. pool in a reef

From Proto-Polynesian *loto. Cognates include Hawaiian loko and Samoan loto.

loto

1. (locative) inside; among

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 192

From Proto-Polynesian *loto (Compare Hawaiian loko, Māori roto, Tahitian loto).

• IPA^(key): /lo.to/

loto

1. interior
2. inland
3. lake

• falani loto

From Proto-Oceanic *loto (“abscess, boil”), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lətaw (“to float, protrude”).

• IPA^(key): /loto/

loto

1. sore

• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪o.t̪o/

loto

1. (stative) to be dry

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics