rotten

Meaning

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
rot‧ten
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɒtn̩/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English roten, from Old Norse rotinn (“decayed, rotten”), past participle of an unrecorded verb related to Old Norse rotna (“to rot”) and Old English rotian (“to rot”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rutāną (“to rot”). More at rot. Morphologically rot + -en.

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