cote

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See also: Côté, Côte, Coté, Cote, coté, côte, and côté

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)

  1. A cottage or hut.
  2. 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.
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Etymology 2

See quote.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

  1. 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)

  1. (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
    A dog cotes a hare.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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)

  1. call number
  2. ratings
    cote de popularitéapproval rating, popularity
    avoir la coteto be popular
  3. (architecture) dimension
  4. (finance, stock market) quote
  5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
  6. (finance) tax assessment
    Synonym: quote-part
  7. (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

  1. inflection of coter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. 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)

  1. sharpening stone
  2. hone

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

cōte

  1. ablative singular of cōs

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

  1. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
  2. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
  3. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.
Descendants
  • English: coat
  • Scots: coat
  • Yola: cooat, coat
References

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

cote (plural cootes)

  1. coot (Fulica atra)
  2. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
Descendants
References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cote m

  1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cote m

  1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

cote

  1. dative singular of cot

Old French

Noun

cote oblique singularf (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)

  1. Alternative form of cotte

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Univerbation of co (how) +‎ de (from it).[2]

Pronunciation

Particle

cote

  1. of what sort is…?
  2. 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
cote chote cote
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. 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

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