botte

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See also: Botte, botté, and bøtte

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔtə/
  • Hyphenation: bot‧te
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  • Rhymes: -ɔtə

Adjective

botte

  1. inflection of bot:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. definite

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French bote, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz. See English boot.

Noun

botte f (plural bottes)

  1. boot (footwear)
  2. something resembling a boot
    la botte italienne ― the Italian boot
    une botte à bière ― a boot-shaped beer glass
  3. (figuratively) oppression
    Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi. ― The Jews suffered greatly under the oppression of the Nazi regime.
  4. (polytechnic jargon) the top of the class in polytechnic school
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Verb

botte

  1. inflection of botter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (“bundle of flax; tuft”), akin to Middle Low German bōte (“bundle of flax”).

Noun

botte f (plural bottes)

  1. bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables)
  2. bundle, sheaf (of grain)
  3. bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay)
  4. (by extension) fodder or feed for small livestock
  5. a bundle of skeins
  6. bunch (large amount of something)
  7. (informal) sex, proposed to a woman by a man
    Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain ! ― I offered to have sex with her. No luck!
  8. bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg)
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Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.

Noun

botte f (plural bottes)

  1. (fencing) thrust

Etymology 4

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).

Noun

botte f (plural bottes)

  1. (nautical) ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)
  2. large barrel, cask
  3. (historical) a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds
  4. (historical) a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Late Latin buttis probably of Ancient Greek origin.

Pronunciation

Noun

botte f (plural botti, diminutive botticèlla or (archaic) botticèllo m or botticìna or (less common) botticìno m)

  1. barrel
    Synonyms: barile, fusto, tinozza
  2. cask

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

botte f

  1. plural of botta

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bote, from Frankish *butt.

Noun

botte f (plural bottes)

  1. (Jersey) boot

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