Noun: grot
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Twaalf mensen waren omgekomen, nadat ze in een grot verdwaald geraakt waren. (Twelve people had passed away, after they had got lost inside a cave.)
Nouns inflected like grot
servet,
sjalot,
sonnet,
kasticket,
skelet,
aalbessennat,
beerput,
bergkat,
morsealfabet,
koffiepot,
bevrijdingszet,
pretsigaret,
boomhut,
drietrapsraket,
bouwput,
krijgswet,
woelrat,
bajonet,
lapjeskat,
grondwet, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed directly from Italian grotta or indirectly via French grotte, from Latin crypta, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós). Doublet of crypte, krocht, and gruft. See: Italian Nouns '
grotta', French Nouns '
grotte', Latin Nouns '
crypta'.
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