bote
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Middle English bōte (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English bōt (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).
Pronunciation
Noun
bote (countable and uncountable, plural botes) (law, historical)
- Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
- A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
- A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Usage notes
- Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “bote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Middle English Dictionary
Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbote/
- Rhymes: -ote
- Hyphenation: bó‧te
Noun
Declension
Further reading
- “bote”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language] (in Albanian), 1980
- “bote”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
- Mann, S. E. (1948) “bote”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 34
Bikol Central
Etymology
Clipping of botelya.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbote/, [ˈbo.te]
- Hyphenation: bo‧te
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bo‧te
- IPA(key): /ˈbote/, [ˈbo.t̪ɪ]
Galician
Verb
bote
- inflection of botar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Khumi Chin
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo˥.te˧/
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bōt, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/
Noun
- Help, advantage, benefit; that which is good, helpful, or relieving:
- Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten. — Layamon's Brut, 1275
- Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
- Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
- An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themselves from danger.
- Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
- A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
- Activity done as redress or recompense for (one's or another's) sins; expiation.
- Iesu […] For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote. — Iesu þat art hevene
- Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
- The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
- (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
- (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
- (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
- (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
- Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte), from Old French bot, bote, probably related to bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”); ultimately of Germanic origin, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/
Noun
bote (plural botes)
Derived terms
References
- “bọ̄te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.
Etymology 3
From Old English bāt.
Etymology 4
From Old English bōtian.
Old French
Noun
bote oblique singular, f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)
- boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)
Descendants
Noun
bote oblique singular, f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)
Etymology 3
See bat.
Noun
bote oblique singular, m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)
- Alternative form of bat
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.tɨ/
- Homophone: bot
Etymology 1
From Old French bot, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt.
Noun
bote m (plural botes)
- rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
- (by extension) any small boat
- Synonym: barquinho
Etymology 2
Deverbal from botar (“to put; to lay”).
Noun
bote m (plural botes)
Derived terms
- errar o bote
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bote
- inflection of botar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.t̪e]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: bo‧te
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).
Noun
bote m (plural botes)
Derived terms
- a bote pronto
- bote de basura
- bote de metralla
- bote de premios (“prize pool”)
- bote de remo/bote a remos/bote de remos (“rowboat”)
- bote neutral
- bote salvavidas (“lifeboat”)
- bote volador (“flying boat”)
- chupar del bote
- dar bote
- darse el bote
- de bote
- de bote y voleo
- de bote en bote
- en el bote
Descendants
- → Cebuano: bote
Verb
bote
- inflection of botar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “bote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.tɛ]
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: bo‧te
Etymology 1
Clipping of botelya, from Spanish botella, from French bouteille, from Late Latin butticula.
Related terms
- botelyita
- botiha
- embotelyador
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Spanish bote, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).
Further reading
- “bote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018