botín

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Spanish

Etymology

First attested in 1495; from Occitan or Old Occitan botin[1][2], from Vulgar Latin *botinus, possibly borrowed from Gaulish boudi (victory, advantage, profit), from Proto-Celtic *boudi. Cognate with Catalan buti, Old French butin.

Noun

botín m (plural botines)

  1. booty
  2. prey
  3. swag

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References

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan (1961) “botín”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105
  2. ^ botín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014