botín

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Galician

Etymology

From Spanish botín.

Pronunciation

Noun

botín m (plural botíns)

  1. booty, loot
    • 1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 198:
      […] por canto o reino de Galicia contribuíra con 40.000 ducados para o equipo d'armada, e por canto o botín que se collera nos barcos franceses acababa de ser arrebatado dos portos gallegos, procedía que se lles restituíse.
      since the Kingdom of Galicia contributed with 40,000 ducats for provisions of the army, and since the booty taken from the French ships had just been snatched from the Galician harbours, it was proceeding to restitute it

References

Spanish

Etymology

First attested in 1495; from Occitan or Old Occitan botin,[1][2] from Vulgar Latin *botinus, possibly borrowed from Gaulish boudi (“victory, advantage, profit”), from Proto-Celtic *boudi. Cognate with Catalan botí, Old French butin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /boˈtin/
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: bo‧tín

Noun

botín m (plural botines)

  1. booty, loot, haul
    Synonym: presa
  2. swag

References

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan (1961) “botín”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105
  2. ^ “botín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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