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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.
Noun
cote (plural cotes)
- A cottage or hut.
- A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See quote.
Verb
cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
- Obsolete form of quote.
Etymology 3
Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.
Verb
cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
- (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
A dog cotes a hare.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
- strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.
Noun
cote f (plural cotes)
- call number
- ratings
- cote de popularité ― approval rating, popularity
- avoir la cote ― to be popular
- (architecture) dimension
- (finance, stock market) quote
- (horse racing, gambling) odds
- (finance) tax assessment
- Synonym: quote-part
- (analytic geometry) applicate, z-coordinate (the last of the three terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of Cartesian coordinates for a three-dimensional space)
- Coordinate terms: abscisse, ordonnée
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
cote
- inflection of coter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin cōtem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈko.te/
- Rhymes: -ote
- Hyphenation: có‧te
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.te/
- Rhymes: -ɔte
- Hyphenation: cò‧te
Noun
cote f (plural coti)
- sharpening stone
- hone
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
cōte
- ablative singular of cōs
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Pronunciation
Noun
cote (plural cotes)
- A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
- A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
- A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.
Pronunciation
Noun
cote (plural cootes)
- coot (Fulica atra)
- seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
Descendants
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
cote m
- definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
cote m
- definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
cote
- dative singular of cot
Old French
Noun
cote oblique singular, f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)
- Alternative form of cotte
Old Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of co (“how”) + de (“from it”).[2]
Pronunciation
Particle
cote
- of what sort is…?
- what is…?
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c36
Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad mne labrar?- What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of cote
radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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cote
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chote
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cote pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150: “The only known Irish form which behaves in this way is the third singular non-feminine form of the preposition di, and I suggest that in fact cote is a phrase co de.”
Further reading
Portuguese
Verb
cote
- inflection of cotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative