Otis

proper nouncommon in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈəʊtɪs//
United States//ˈoʊtɪs//

A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.

proper noun

1
A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.
2
A male given name from the Germanic languages, transferred from the surname.
[…] in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, "Oat" was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.
3
An Otis elevator.

Etymology

A patronymic surname derived from Middle English genitive case of the Germanic given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.

Other · Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a…others · Other people.otherwise · Differently, in another way.

Otis · A surname transferred from the given name, notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis and the innovator and industrialist Elisha Otis.

otter · An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily…Otter · A river with its source in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, and…Otto · A male given name from the Germanic languages.

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