splot

From Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, blot, patch or plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Related to split.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /splɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /splɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

splot (plural splots)

1. A spot; splotch.

• splotch

• OLTPs, Stolp, plots, polts, tops'l

Deverbal from spleść.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsplɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: splot

splot m inan (diminutive splocik)

1. tangle, a tangled twisted mass
2. weave, pattern of weaving
3. stitch, pattern of knitting
4. (anatomy) plexus

   splot szyjny ― cervical plexus

5. (mathematics) convolution

• “splot”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “splot”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)