pot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A deep round container used for cooking or for growing plants.

   She boiled the pasta in a large pot of water.

2. 2
   verb

   To plant something in a pot.

   I potted the small palm and placed it by the window.

3. 3
   noun

   An amount of money set aside or available to be won.

   Everyone added to the pot before the game began.

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Simplified etymology

Pot originally referred to any cylindrical container, as in chimney pot, and many expressions involving the word draw on its use for cooking food. The separate American slang word pot, meaning “cannabis,” is recorded from the 1930s and may come from Mexican Spanish potiguaya, “marijuana leaves.”

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot English pot From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian…

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