doter

From dote +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊtə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)

doter (plural doters)

1. Synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”)
   • 1843, Astolphe marquis de Custine, The Empire of the Czar, page 103:

     “Hold thy tongue! old doter; how should my daughter resemble thy son?”

2. Synonym of dotard (“one who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness”)

• (dotard): dodipole, mimmerkin; see also Thesaurus:dotard

• orted, roted, toder, trode

Borrowed from Latin dōtāre. Doublet of douer.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.te/

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doter

1. (transitive) to endow, donate
2. (transitive) to fund

   L’école accueille 170 élèves dans des salles propres, mais pauvrement dotées.

   The school welcomes 170 pupils to its clean, but poorly funded classrooms.

• “doter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• torde

dōter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dōtō

• douter, doubter, duter

From Latin dubitō.

doter

1. to doubt
2. to fear; to be afraid (of)
   • 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 11, column 1, line 19:

     Saint Lorenz dit torment ne dot

     Saint Laurence says he doesn't fear torture

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• doutance
• redoter

• French: douter
• → Middle English: douten^[1]
  • English: doubt

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (2. doter, supplement)
• duter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub