loot

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

pilhar

saque

saquear

roubar

saltear

presa

espólio

pilhagem

moedas

roubo

gaita

massa

botim

despojos

grana

💸

tostão

rapina

guito

💸

pataca

pataco

aquisição

pôr a saque

arame

atrair

cascalho

deliciar

dinheiro

💸

embevecer

encantar

extasiar

fascinar

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

butin

saccheggiare

piller

plündern

botín

depredare

pillar

bottino

saquear

plunderen

saccager

Beute

buit

ravir

mettre à sac

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/luːt/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com holandês: loet

Cognato com scots: lute

Cognato com frísio ocidental: loete

Cognato com Middle Low German: lōte

Cognato com francês: 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.