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rotting en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot + -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).

Meanings

1. The process by which something rots.
   • […] the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves. 1686, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire, page 214:
2. Material that has rotted.
   • From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence. c. 2009, Janice N. Harrington, Possum:

Forms

Deriveds

bed rotting

Relateds

unrotting · nonrotting · rottingness · rottingly

rotting en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot + -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of rot
   form of rot

Translations (3)

es cedizo ((adjective)) · eo putranta ((adjective)) · es cedicio ((adjective))