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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).
Pronunciation
Verb
dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)
- (intransitive, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
- Synonyms: adore, love
Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
2010, Jennifer Egan, “A to B”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.
- (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: J Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, , published 1727, →OCLC:He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
Derived terms
Translations
to act in a foolish manner
Noun
dote (plural dotes)
- (Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
- (obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
1630, Tinker of Turvey:How did his death-bed make him a doate!
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
dote
- inflection of doter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Italian
Etymology
From Latin dotem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.te/
- Rhymes: -ɔte
- Hyphenation: dò‧te
Noun
dote f (plural doti)
- dowry, dower
- gift, talent
Related terms
Latin
Noun
dōte
- ablative singular of dōs
References
Middle English
Etymology 1
A back-formation from doten.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
dote
- An idiot or imbecile; a dotard.
- A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Verb
dote
- Alternative form of doten
Old Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dōs, dōtem, from Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis (“act of giving”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dote m or f
- dowry
- Synonyms: arra, arrás
ca. 1480, Ordenanzas reales de Castilla. Huete, Álvaro de Castro, 1484. BNM I1338,
fol. 243r. , (ed. by Ivy A. Corfis, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):
- E sy fijos non ouiere que pierda todos sus bienes las dos partes para la nuestra camara & la otra terçia parte para acusador. E estos bienes que asy se perdieren se entiendan sacadas las debdas & sacado el dote & arras de su muger.
- And if he does not have issue (children), he shall lose all his possessions. Two thirds shall go to our chamber, and the third to the accuser . And by these possessions thus lost, his debts shall be considered solved, along with the dowry and downpayment of his wife.
1491, Alfonso X,
Siete Partidas (BNM I 766) , (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto, 2004, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):
- Ley sesta. como la dote o el arra que resçibe el padre por su fijo o por su fija no deue venir a partiçion entre los otros hermanos.
- Law 6. How the dowry or downpayment that a father receives for his son or daughter shall not be split among the other siblings.
Descendants
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Latin dos.
Pronunciation
Noun
dote m (plural dotes)
- foundation (legacy constituting a permanent fund of a charity)
- dowry (property or payment given at time of marriage)
- (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) talent
Related terms
Etymology 2
Verb
dote
- inflection of dotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdote/
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: do‧te
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Spanish dote (“dowry”, masculine or feminine noun), borrowed from Latin dōtem. Doublet of dosis.
Noun
dote f (plural dotes)
- dowry
- talent
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
dote
- inflection of dotar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish dote, from Latin dōs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdote/,
- Hyphenation: do‧te
Noun
dote (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜒ)
- dowry
- Synonyms: bigay-kaya, pasalap, ubad, (dialectal) bilang
Derived terms
References
- “dote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Venetian
Noun
dote
- plural of dota