runt

English

Etymology

The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED considers this to be unlikely.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌnt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

Noun

runt (plural runts)

1. The smallest animal of a litter.
   • 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 168:

     Sometimes, as we have seen, one member of a litter is a runt, much smaller than the rest. He is unable to fight for food as strongly as the rest, and runts often die. We have considered the conditions under which it would actually pay a mother to let a runt die.

2. (by extension) The smallest child in the family.

   the runt of the family

3. Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.

   Synonym: dwarf

4. (slang) An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
5. (networking) An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
6. (typography) A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.

   Hypernym: widow

7. A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
8. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVI.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     Neither young poles nor old runts are durable

9. A bow.

Derived terms

• kale runt
• runt disease
• runt of the litter
• runty

 

Translations

the smallest or the weakest animal of a litter or a pack

• Czech: nedochůdče n
• Finnish: pahnanpohjimmainen (fi)
• French: avorton (fr) m,
• German: Zwerg (de) m, Kümmerling (de) m, Kümmerer (de) m
• Macedonian: кржле n (kržle)
• Navajo: nákʼeeshchąąʼí
• Russian: после́дыш (ru) m (poslédyš)
• Serbo-Croatian: kržljavac (sh) m, kržljavica (sh) f
• Spanish: benjamín (es) m

smallest child in the family

• Bulgarian: изтърсак (bg) m (iztǎrsak)
• Czech: benjamínek m
• Finnish: kuopus (fi)
• Italian: (slang, figurative, pejorative) piccoletto (it) m
• Spanish: benjamín (es) m

undersized or stunted plant, animal or person

• Bulgarian: джудже (bg) n (džudže)
• Czech: skrček m, zakrslík m, zákrsek m
• Finnish: pätkä (fi), tynkä (fi) (anything); rääpäle (fi) (animal or person); käppänä (person)
• French: avorton (fr) m
• German: Zwerg (de) m, Winzling (de) m, Kümmerling (de) m, Kümmerer (de) m
• Hungarian: törpe (hu)
• Irish: abhaicín m
• Japanese: ちび (ja) (chibi)
• Korean: 작음 (ko) (jageum), 꼬마 (ko) (kkoma)
• Macedonian: кржле n (kržle)
• Maori: tīmohea
• Navajo: nákʼeeshchąąʼí
• Polish: cherlak (pl) m
• Russian: недоро́сток (ru) m (nedoróstok), короты́шка (ru) m or f (korotýška), ка́рлик (ru) (kárlik), ши́бздик (ru) m (šíbzdik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кр̏жљавац m

  Roman: kȑžljavac (sh) m

• Spanish: enano (es) m

small Ethernet packet

• Finnish: jäänne (fi)

single word that appears as the last line of a paragraph

• Finnish: orposana, orpo (fi)

breed of pigeon

hardened stem or stalk of a plant

• Hungarian: kóró (hu)

Anagrams

• turn

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

runt

1. inflection of runnen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

Anagrams

• turn

Faroese

Adjective

runt

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of rundur

Adverb

runt

1. around

Old French

Adjective

runt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular runde)

1. Alternative form of reont

Declension

Declension of runt

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	runz, runs, runts	runde	runt
	Oblique	runt			runde	runt
Plural	Subject	runt	rundes		runt
	Oblique	runz, runs, runts			rundes	runt

Plautdietsch

Adjective

runt

1. round, circular, spherical

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

runt

1. indefinite neuter singular of rund

Adverb

runt

1. around; aimlessly (about movement)

   gå runt

   walk around

2. around; at random locations
3. around; in a manner that involves a lot of transportation

See also

• dygnet runt
• gå runt
• se sig runt
• vända runt

Preposition

runt

1. around; denoting a full circle
2. around; following a path which curves near an object
3. around (a corner)
4. around, near (about time)

   Jag kommer runt tre.

   I'll come around three o'clock.

5. about; all round

Synonyms

• kring
• omkring

Derived terms

• runt om
• runt omkring

Yola

Alternative forms

• ee-runt, ee-rent

Etymology

From Middle English rent, i-rent, past participle of renden (“to tear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾʊnt/, /iːˈɾʊnt/, /iːˈɾɛnt/

Verb

runt

1. torn

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 65