Otis (film)
WordNet
noun
(1) Type genus of the Otididae: European bustard
(2) United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
WiktionaryText
Etymology
A patronymic surname derived from genitive case of the given name Ote, Ode, cognate to modern Otto.
Proper noun
- , notably of the American revolutionary hero James Otis.
- , transferred from the surname.
Quotations
- 1961 Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, Vintage Contemporaries, 2000, ISBN 0375708448, page 74
- - - - 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.