bot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bot"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɒt/
• enPR: bŏt, IPA^(key): /bɑt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Etymology 1

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).

Alternative forms

• bott

Noun

bot (plural bots)

1. The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
   • 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:

     One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.

   • 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:

     Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.

Translations

larva of a botfly

• Portuguese: berne m
• Russian: личи́нка о́вода f (ličínka óvoda)
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• Swedish: styngflugelarv c

Etymology 2

From bottom.

Verb

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

1. (British, slang) To bugger
2. (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.

   Synonym: (UK) bum

   Can I bot a smoke?

   Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.

Etymology 3

(deprecated template usage) Clipping of robot.

Alternative forms

• 'bot

Noun

bot (plural bots)

1. (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
   • 1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130:

     I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
2. (computing) A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
3. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a multiplayer video game, such as a first-person shooter.

Related terms

• -bot suffix

Translations

robot — see robot

a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks

• Arabic: بُوت m (būt), بُوت m (bot), رُوبُوت (ar) m (robut), رُوبُوت (ar) m (rūbut)
• Catalan: bot (ca) m
• Dutch: bot (nl)
• Esperanto: roboto (eo)
• Finnish: botti (fi)
• French: robot (fr) m, bot (fr) m
• Galician: bot m
• German: Bot (de) m
• Greek: μποτ (el) n (bot)
• Hebrew: בוט (he) m
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• Japanese: ボット (ja) (botto), ロボット (ja) (robotto)
• Latin: botum n, robotum n
• Latvian: robotprogrammatūra f, bots m
• Portuguese: bot (pt) m
• Romanian: bot (ro)
• Russian: бот (ru) m (bot), ро́бот (ru) m (róbot)
• Spanish: bot (es) m
• Swedish: bot (sv) c

Verb

1. (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.

   Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• BTO

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/, [bot]

Noun

bot (plural [please provide])

1. flounder (fish)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From botar.

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. A jump, leap

Related terms

• botar

Verb

bot

Etymology 2

From Middle English bot (English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”).

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. boat

Synonyms

• barca
• vaixell

Etymology 3

From Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”).

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. wineskin
2. bagpipes

Synonyms

• (bagpipes): bot de gemecs, cornamusa

Derived terms

• ploure a bots i barrals

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• buat

Etymology

Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.

Noun

bot m

1. blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/

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• Hyphenation: bot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

2. not sharp, blunt, dull
3. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude

Inflection

Declension of bot
uninflected	bot
inflected	botte
comparative	botter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		bot	botter	het botst het botste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	botte	bottere	botste
	n. sing.	bot	botter	botste
	plural	botte	bottere	botste
definite		botte	bottere	botste
partitive		bots	botters	—

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: bòt

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch but.

Noun

bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

1. bone

   Synonyms: been, knekel, knook

Derived terms

• penisbot

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch bot. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

1. flounder (a type of fish)

Derived terms

• heilbot m
• tarbot m

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bot
• → West Frisian: bot

Etymology 4

Noun

bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

1. (Belgium) boot

Etymology 5

Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

Noun

bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

1. A bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games).

Related terms

• robot

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [boːt]

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• Homophone: Boot

Verb

bot

1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

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Hungarian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot]

Noun

bot (plural botok)

1. stick

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	bot	botok
accusative	botot	botokat
dative	botnak	botoknak
instrumental	bottal	botokkal
causal-final	botért	botokért
translative	bottá	botokká
terminative	botig	botokig
essive-formal	botként	botokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	botban	botokban
superessive	boton	botokon
adessive	botnál	botoknál
illative	botba	botokba
sublative	botra	botokra
allative	bothoz	botokhoz
elative	botból	botokból
delative	botról	botokról
ablative	bottól	botoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	boté	botoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	botéi	botokéi

Possessive forms of bot
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	botom	botjaim
2nd person sing.	botod	botjaid
3rd person sing.	botja	botjai
1st person plural	botunk	botjaink
2nd person plural	bototok	botjaitok
3rd person plural	botjuk	botjaik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

• botkormány
• horgászbot

(Expressions):

• a füle botját sem mozdítja

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bāt, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

Alternative forms

• (Early or Northern ME) bate, bat
• bote, boot, boet, boyt, bootte, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔːt/

Noun

bot (plural botes)

1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
   1. A boat (a watercraft or vessel smaller than a ship).
   2. A boat stowed on a ship for utility purposes, especially for tendering.
2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.

Derived terms

• botere

Descendants

• English: boat (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: bate, bait
• → Dutch: boot
  • Afrikaans: boot
• → German: Boot
• → Low German: Boot
• → Plautdietsch: Boot
• → North Frisian: böötj
• → Saterland Frisian: Boot
• → West Frisian: boat
• → Catalan: bot
• → Galician: bote

References

• “bōt (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse búð.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

Etymology 3

From Old English batt.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

From Old English bōt.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

Etymology 5

From Old French bote.

Noun

bot

1. Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *buzdos (“tail, penis”) (compare Welsh both ‘hub, nave’, Breton bod ‘bush, shrub; branch’), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosdʰos (“piece of wood”)

Noun

bot m

1. tail
2. penis

Descendants

• Irish: bod
• Manx: bwoid
• Scottish Gaelic: bod

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bot	bot pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/	mbot
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bót

Noun

bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

1. a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
2. a remedy
3. a patch

Derived terms

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

Related terms

• bøtelegge

References

• “bot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bot_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse bót

Noun

bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

1. a fine (as above)
2. a remedy
3. a patch

Derived terms

• botemiddel
• parkeringsbot

Related terms

• bøtelegge

References

• “bot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Cognate with Old Frisian bōte, Old Saxon bōta, Dutch boete, Old High German buoza (German Buße), Old Norse bōt (Swedish bot), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːt/

Noun

bōt f (nominative plural bōte)

1. help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil

   Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.

2. mending, repair, improvement

   ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs

3. compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance

   For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins

4. improvement in (moral) condition, amendment

   Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted

Declension

Declension of bot (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bōt	bōta, bōte
accusative	bōte	bōta, bōte
genitive	bōte	bōta
dative	bōte	bōtum

Derived terms

• tō bōte (“to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover”)
• bōtan, bētan (“to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone”)
• bōtettan (“to improve, repair, to better”)
• bōtlēas (“unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bōt”)
• bōtwyrþe (“pardonable, that can be atoned for by bōt”)
• bryċġbōt (“repairing of bridges”)
• burgbōt, burhbōt (“liability for repair of the walls of a town or fortress”)
• ċiriċbōt (“repair of churches”)
• cynebōt (“king's compensation”)
• dǣdbōtnes, dǣdbētnes (“penitence”)
• dǣdbōt (“amends, atonement, repentance, penitence”)
• dǣdbōtlihting (“mitigation of penance”)
• dolgbōt, dolhbōt (“fine or compensation for wounding”)
• eftbōt (“restoration to health”)
• fǣhþbōt (“payment, fine for engaging in a feud”)
• feohbōt (“money compensation”)
• godbōt (“atonement”)
• hādbōt (“compensation for injury or insult to a priest”)
• mǣgbōt (“compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered man, maegbot”)
• mægþbōt (“fine for assault on an unmarried woman”)
• manbōt (“fine paid to the lord of a man slain”)
• mōnaþbōt (“penance lasting a month”)
• sārbōt (“compensation for wounding”)
• synbōt (“penance”)
• twibōte, twibēte (“subject to double compensation”, adjective, adverb)
• wēofodbōt (“fine for injuring a priest”)
• wucubōt (“penance lasting a week”)

Descendants

• Middle English: bote
  • English: boot
  • → English: bote
  • Scots: bute, buit

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Old French

Etymology 1

Probably a Germanic loan from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Compare Italian botta (“toad”), Old English padde (“toad”), Old Norse padda (“toad”). More at paddock.

Noun

bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular bot, nominative plural boz or botz)

1. toad (animal)

Derived terms

• boterel

References

• “bot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology 2

From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).

Noun

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

1. strike; hit; blow

Synonyms

• cop

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

1. Alternative form of bat

Etymology 4

See bout.

Noun

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

1. Alternative form of bout

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bot) (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
• bot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')

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Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

Noun

bōt f

1. improvement
2. benefit, utility
3. cure
4. compensation

Declension

Declension of bōt (consonant stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bōt	bōtin	bø̄ter	bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
accusative	bōt	bōtina, -ena	bø̄ter	bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
dative	bōt	bōtinni, -inne	bōtum, -om	bōtumin, -omen
genitive	bōta(r)	inna(r)	bōta	bōtanna

or

Declension of bōt (i-stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bōt	bōtin	bōti(r), -e(r)	bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
accusative	bōt	bōtina, -ena	bōti(r), -e(r)	bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
dative	bōt	bōtinni, -inne	bōtum, -om	bōtumin, -omen
genitive	bōta(r)	bōtinna(r)	bōta	bōtanna

Descendants

• Swedish: bot

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English bot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃ/, /ˈbɔt/

Noun

bot m (plural s)

1. (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
2. (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)

Related terms

• robô

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Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *botum, perhaps from Latin botulus or from a root *botium, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push, strike”).

Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.

Noun

bot n (plural boturi)

1. (usually of animals) snout, mouth
2. bump
3. hump

Synonyms

• (mouth): gură
• (bump): umflătură, cucui
• (hump): cocoașă

See also

• cioc

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English bot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbod/ [ˈboð̞]

Noun

bot m (plural bots)

1. bot (robot)

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /buːt/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy", "profit"”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

Noun

bot c

1. fine (penalty in money)

Declension

Declension of bot
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bot	boten	böter	böterna
Genitive	bots	botens	böters	böternas

See also

• böta
• bötfälla

Etymology 2

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

Noun

bot c

1. cure; remedy

Declension

Declension of bot
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bot	boten	boter	boterna
Genitive	bots	botens	boters	boternas

See also

• bota

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Tatar

Noun

bot

1. thigh

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Volapük

Noun

bot (nominative plural bots)

1. boat

Declension

declension of bot

	singular	plural
nominative	bot	bots
genitive	bota	botas
dative	bote	botes
accusative	boti	botis
vocative 1	o bot!	o bots!
predicative 2	botu	botus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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West Frisian

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Adjective

bot

1. curt, blunt, rude
2. dull (as a knife)

Inflection

Inflection of bot
uninflected	bot
inflected	botte
comparative	botter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		bot	botter	it botst it botste
indefinite	c. sing.	botte	bottere	botste
	n. sing.	bot	botter	botste
	plural	botte	bottere	botste
definite		botte	bottere	botste
partitive		bots	botters	—

Further reading

• “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Adverb

bot

1. very, quite

Further reading

• “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bot/

Noun

bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

1. flounder (a type of fish)

Further reading

• “bot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011