botar

Borrowed from Old French boter, from Old French bouter (“to strike, push”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bōtan (“to push, strike, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [buˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [boˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [boˈtaɾ]

botar (first-person singular present boto, first-person singular preterite botí, past participle botat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /o/

1. (intransitive) to bounce, to bound

   Synonym: botre

2. (transitive) to leap over

   Synonym: saltar

• botafoc
• botavant

• “botar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Spanish votar.

• IPA^(key): /boˈtaɾ/, [bɔˈt̪aɾ̪]

botar

1. vote

   Synonym: boto

botar

1. to vote

   Synonym: boto

From Old Galician-Portuguese botar, from Old French bouter (“to strike, push”), from Frankish *bautan (“to push, strike, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, strike, hew”).

• IPA^(key): /boˈtar/
• Hyphenation: bo‧tar

botar (first-person singular present boto, first-person singular preterite botei, past participle botado)

1. to throw

   Synonym: lanzar

2. to expel
   • 1444, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Livro do Concello de Pontevedra (1431-1463). Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 170:

     Este dia ẽno dito Conçello, o dito Sueiro Gomes requereu aos ditos juis, alcaldes jurados que por quanto se cometera hũu reto ontre Sueiro de Remiron e Rui de Portas, e eles non eran vesiños nen moradores ẽna dita villa, e por rason que eles nen cada ũu deles non bolvesen roido nen fesesen ajuntamento de omes ẽna dita vila para que aos vesiños e moradores da dita vila non viese dapno algũu nen asimesmo a noso señor deserviçio algũu, que el botara fora da dita vila ao dito Sueiro de Remiron, e por ende que lles requeria que logo fesesen asimesmo botar fora da dita vila ao dito Rui de Portas para que fesesen seus retos fora da dita vila.

   Synonyms: expeler, expulsar

3. to put out
   • 1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Arauxo, Entremés famoso sobre da pesca do río Miño, page 15:

     Boteille catorce dentes fóra coa cachiporra [...] O lombo lle vai triscando

     I put out of him fourteen teeth with the club [...] his back is cracking as he walks away

   Synonym: sacar

4. to add
5. to serve
6. to sow
   • 1473, Romaní Martínez, Miguel / Rodríguez Suárez, Mª del Pilar (2003): Libro tumbo de pergamino. Un códice medieval del monasterio de Oseira. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo, page 67:

     Item aforam a Alvaro d ' Outeyro, a seu padre et a tres vozes o lugar d'Outeyro, a de botar tres fanegas de semente et dar todo de quarto et oyto maravedis de dereytura et hum par de gallinas cada anno, et se non britar et lavrar que perca o foro.

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7. to launch (a ship)
8. to bounce

• a cona que te botou
• botar por fóra (“to overflow”)
• desbotar (“to discard”)

• “botar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “botar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “botar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “botar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “botar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “botar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• “botar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ultimately of Germanic origin; compare French bouter.

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botar

1. to put; to place

From Old Galician-Portuguese botar, from Old French bouter (“to strike, push”), from Frankish *bautan (“to push, strike, beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat, strike, hew”).

• Homophone: votar (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: bo‧tar

botar (first-person singular present boto, first-person singular preterite botei, past participle botado)

1. (informal) to put
   1. (informal) to lay (an egg)
2. (informal) to throw

• Macanese: botâ

From botă +‎ -ar.

botar m (plural botari)

1. barrelmaker

Via Old French boter (“to strike”) (modern French bouter), from Frankish *buttan, from Frankish *bautan (“to hit, strike”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd-.

Compare French bouter, Portuguese botar and Italian buttare.

• IPA^(key): /boˈtaɾ/ [boˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bo‧tar
• Homophone: votar

botar (first-person singular present boto, first-person singular preterite boté, past participle botado)

1. to bounce
2. (Latin America) to throw, throw away

   Synonyms: echar, tirar

3. (Latin America) to fire, dismiss

   Synonyms: despedir, echar

4. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) to buck, throw (a rider or pack) by bucking

   Synonym: corcovear

• “botar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Form of bota (“to heal”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.tar/

botar

1. present indicative of bota

• bota

botar

1. indefinite plural of bot

• abort, borta