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See also: botó, bôto, bōto, bōtō, and bötö

English

A boto

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbəʊtəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊtəʊ

Noun

boto (plural botos)

  1. Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system
    • 2008 April 1, Henry Fountain, “Carrying a Torch, or at Least Sprigs of Grass”, in New York Times‎:
      But in a group where one boto puts on a display, there was much more tail-whacking, biting and other aggressive behavior among the males.

References

Anagrams

Basque

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish voto.

Pronunciation

Noun

boto inan

  1. vote
    Synonym: boz
  2. franchise, suffrage
  3. (religion) vow

Declension

Declension of boto (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive boto botoa botoak
ergative botok botoak botoek
dative botori botoari botoei
genitive botoren botoaren botoen
comitative botorekin botoarekin botoekin
causative botorengatik botoarengatik botoengatik
benefactive botorentzat botoarentzat botoentzat
instrumental botoz botoaz botoez
inessive bototan botoan botoetan
locative bototako botoko botoetako
allative bototara botora botoetara
terminative bototaraino botoraino botoetaraino
directive bototarantz botorantz botoetarantz
destinative bototarako botorako botoetarako
ablative bototatik bototik botoetatik
partitive botorik — —
prolative bototzat — —

Derived terms

Further reading

  • "boto" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “boto” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botre

Etymology 2

Verb

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

Cebuano

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See buto.

Noun

boto

  1. Misspelling of buto.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish voto.

Noun

boto

  1. vote
    Synonym: botar

Verb

boto

  1. to vote
    Synonym: botar

Usage notes

(verb: to vote): Botar is often used instead due to its being a homophone of buto in certain accents.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English boot, French botte.

Pronunciation

Noun

boto (accusative singular boton, plural botoj, accusative plural botojn)

  1. boot

Fijian

Noun

boto

  1. frog

Galician

Boto or arroaz boto

Etymology 1

Either onomatopoeic, or from the same Germanic origin as Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs). Compare Dutch bot (“blunt, dull”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

  1. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
    Synonym: arroaz boto

Adjective

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

  1. blunt, dull

Etymology 2

From bota.

Pronunciation

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

  1. wineskin, waterskin

Etymology 3

Verb

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

References

  • “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “boto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “boto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “boto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “boto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Gothic

Romanization

bōtō

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐍉

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Ilocano buto (“penis”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boto

  1. penis, male genital

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto boto, English boot, French botte, Russian боти́нок (botínok), Spanish bota.

Noun

boto (plural boti)

  1. boot

Derived terms

  • boteto (“short boot, half-boot; shoe”)
  • botizar (“to put boots on, boot”)

Javanese

Noun

boto

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bata.

Mogum

Noun

boto

  1. sister

References

Nias

Noun

boto (mutated form mboto)

  1. body

References

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 47.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *budô. Cognate to Old High German biotan (“to offer, send, command”).

Noun

boto m

  1. messenger, envoy

Declension

Declension of boto (masculine n-stem)
case singular plural
nominative boto boton, botun
accusative boton, botun boton, botun
genitive boten, botin botōno
dative boten, botin botōm, botōn

Descendants

  • Middle High German: bote

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch boot and Portuguese bote and Spanish bote.

Noun

boto

  1. boat, ship, vessel

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from Tupi-Guarani *butu, *boto.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

  1. boto (Inia geoffrensis, a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon)
    Synonym: tucuxi
  2. (loosely) any dolphin, especially a freshwater one
    Synonyms: delfim, golfinho

See also

References

  1. ^ Poelzl, V. (2010). Brazil: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited, p. 54

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps a Germanic borrowing, from Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs, “dull, deaf”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Adjective

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

  1. dull (lacking a sharp edge or point)
    Synonyms: cego, embotado, rombo
  2. dull; slow (unable to think quickly)
    Synonyms: devagar, embotado, lento

Etymology 3

From Konkani (bhat), from Sanskrit भट्ट (bhaṭṭa).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

  1. (Hinduism) Bhat (Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas)

Etymology 4

Unknown. Perhaps from a derivative of Late Latin buttis, butta (“barrel, cask”), or otherwise related to bota (“boot”).

Pronunciation

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

  1. (regional) wineskin, water skin (container for liquids made out of animal hide)
    Synonym: odre

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish , from Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs).

Adjective

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

  1. blunt
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

Further reading

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English boat or Dutch boot.

Noun

boto

  1. boat

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish voto, from Latin vōtum. Doublet of boda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboto/,
  • Hyphenation: bo‧to

Noun

boto (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜓ)

  1. vote
  2. vow

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Toba Batak

Etymology

From Proto-Batak *bətəh.

Verb

boto (active umboto or mamboto)

  1. to know

Venetian

Etymology

Related to the Italian verb buttare (“to toss, fling, throw about”), from Old French bouter (“to strike”).

Noun

boto m (plural boti)

  1. explosion, bang
  2. thud, thump
  3. toll (of a bell)
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