bote

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See also: Bote, boté, bóte, böte, and botë

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bəʊt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /boʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt

Noun

bote (countable and uncountable, plural botes) (law, historical)

  1. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
  2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
  3. A right to take wood from property not one's own.

Usage notes

  • Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Noun

bote

  1. plural of boot

Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Hyphenation: bó‧te

Noun

bote f (plural bote, definite botja, definite plural botet)

  1. clay vessel; pitcher
    Synonyms: shtambë, poç, kënatë, brokë
  2. bump, impact, shock, encounter
  3. bottle
    Synonym: shishe

Declension

Declension of bote
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative bote bote botja botet
accusative boten
dative bote boteve botes botevet
ablative botesh

Noun

bote

  1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of botë

Further reading

  • “bote”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “bote”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “bote”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 34

Bikol Central

Etymology

Clipping of botelya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/,
  • Hyphenation: bo‧te

Noun

bóte

  1. bottle

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bo‧te
  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/,

Noun

bote

  1. a lifeboat

Galician

Verb

bote

  1. inflection of botar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

Verb

bote

  1. to hit, beat

References

  • K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 48

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bōt, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

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Pronunciation

Noun

bote (plural botes or boten)

  2. Help, advantage, benefit; that which is good, helpful, or relieving:
    Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
    1. Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
    2. Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
    3. An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themselves from danger.
    4. Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
    5. A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
  3. Activity done as redress or recompense for (one's or another's) sins; expiation.
    Iesu For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote. — Iesu þat art hevene
  4. Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
  5. The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
  6. (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
  7. (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
  8. (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
  9. (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
    Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
Related terms
Descendants
  • English: boot
  • → English: bote (also from Old English bōt)
  • Scots: bute, buit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte), from Old French bot, bote, probably related to bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”); ultimately of Germanic origin, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

bote (plural botes)

  2. A boot or similar item of footwear; a shoe with a cover for part of the leg.
  3. (rare) A cover for the leg.
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References

Etymology 3

From Old English bāt.

Noun

bote

  1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 4

From Old English bōtian.

Verb

bote

  1. Alternative form of boten (“to resolve”)

Old French

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bautan (“to strike”).

Noun

bote oblique singular, f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

  1. boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)
Descendants

Etymology 2

Latin buttis.

Noun

bote oblique singular, f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

  1. cask; barrel

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

bote oblique singular, m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)

  1. Alternative form of bat

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)
  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

From Old French bot, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt.

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
  2. (by extension) any small boat
    Synonym: barquinho

Etymology 2

Deverbal from botar (“to put; to lay”).

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. (biology) an animal's sudden thrust forward towards its prey
  2. (figurative) a sudden attack
  3. (Brazil, soccer) a goalkeeper's jump to catch the ball
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bote

  1. inflection of botar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: bo‧te

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. boat, dinghy
    Synonym: barco
  2. vessel, can, canister, container, jar, tin
    Synonym: recipiente
  3. jackpot, pot, pool (large cash prize)
    Synonym: gordo
  4. (Mexico) jail
    Synonyms: cárcel, prisión, chucho (Chile)
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

  1. bounce

Etymology 3

Verb

bote

  1. inflection of botar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bo‧te
  • IPA(key): /ˈbote/,

Etymology 1

Clipping of botelya, from Spanish botella, from French bouteille, from Late Latin butticula.

Noun

bote (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒ)

  1. bottle
    Synonym: (dated) botelya
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish bote, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).

Noun

bote (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒ)

  1. lifeboat
  2. speedboat

Further reading

  • “bote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Venetian

Noun

bote

  1. plural of bota

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Noun

bote

  1. bottle
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