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ot-
2- variant of oto- before a vowel:
otalgia.
o.t.
3abbreviation for
- overtime.
O.T.
4abbreviation for
- Old Testament.
OT
1abbreviation for
- occupational therapy
- occupational therapist
- Old Testament
- overtime
ot-
2combining_form
- a variant of oto-
otalgia
Example Sentences
Some 8.2 million workers who would have gained OT protection under Obama were left behind by the Trump rule, Heidi Shierholz of the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute calculated.
The Obama administration’s idea was to narrow the practice of low-wage employers to designate workers as “managers” to exempt them from the OT rule while paying them an hourly wage.
Toby Venter, head of the OT Venter group of companies, which owns the Kyalami circuit, says that the mooted attendance of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in South Africa plus the docking of a Russian ship at a naval base scuppered the plans.
It was the third straight OT game in the series, and the first one that the Panthers scored in the extra session.
And for the third straight game, to OT they went.
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Words That Use ot-
What does ot- mean?
Ot- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “ear.” It is often used in medical terms, especially in anatomy and pathology.
Ot- comes from the Greek oûs, meaning “ear.” Related to the Greek oûs is English’s own word ear; so is the Latin word for ear, auris, which is the ultimate source of such words as aural. Learn more about oûs at our entry for otic, an adjective used in anatomy meaning “of or relating to the ear.”
Ot- is a variant of oto-, which loses its -o– when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.
Want to know more? Read our Words That Use oto- article.
Examples of ot-
A word that features ot- which you may be familiar with is otalgia, a medical term for “earache.”
Since you’re all ears, you already know that ot- means “ear.” The rest of the word, -algia, from the Greek álgos, means “pain.” Otalgia literally translates to “ear pain.”
What are some terms that use the combining form ot-?
What are some other forms that ot- may be commonly confused with?
Just because a word begins with ot- does not necessarily mean it is using ot- as a combining form meaning “ear.” Consider otiose, meaning “idle, indolent.”
Discover the surprising connection between the adjective otiose and the verb negotiate at our entry for the latter word.
Break it down!
The combining form -itis is used to denote inflammation. With this in mind, what does the medical condition otitis involve?
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