loot

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable) Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.
2. (uncountable) Synonym of sack, the plundering of a city, particularly during war.
3. (US, colloquial, uncountable) Any valuable thing received for free, especially Christmas presents.
4. (slang, uncountable) Synonym of money.

Verb

1. (transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.
2. (transitive) Synonym of rob, to steal something from someone by violence or threat of violence.

Concepts

butin

piller

saccager

ravir

mettre à sac

pognon

fric

pillage

dévaster

prise de guerre

trophée

🏆

voler

flouse

rapine

tune

marchandise volée

pépètes

blé

picaillon

💸

braise

dépouiller

flouze

galette

grisbi

jonc

oseille

pèze

thune

💸

Synonymes

plunder

booty

pillage

rob

spoil

stolen goods

despoil

ransack

spoils

steal

dough

sack

lolly

swag

raid

reave

haul

burgle

dosh

robbing

thieve

ravage

dirty money

prize

scratch

bread

🍞

foray

boodle

strip

prey

robbery

simoleons

cabbage

clams

fleece

gelt

kale

kill

🔪🩸👤

lettuce

lucre

maraud

output

pelf

rifle

snatch

sugar

wampum

shekels

stolen property

moolah

Traductions

saccheggiare

plündern

botín

depredare

pillar

saquear

bottino

plunderen

Beute

buit

pilhar

saquear

saque

roubar

λάφυρο

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/luːt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à néerlandais: loet

Appartenant à écossais: lute

Appartenant à frison occidental: loete

Appartenant à Middle Low German: lōte

Appartenant à français: louche

In summary

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.