bote

See also: Bote, boté, bóte, böte, and botë

English

Alternative forms

• bot
• boot

Etymology

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-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊt/

Noun

bote (plural botes or boten) (note: boten does not occur after Middle English)

1. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction, penance, expiation; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.

   Iesu […] For synne þat hath my soule bounde, Let þi blessed blood be my bote. — Iesu þat art hevene

2. A payment of any kind.
3. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
4. (law, historical) A right to take wood from property not one's own.
5. (obsolete) repairs

   Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400

6. (obsolete) advantage, benefit, profit, cure, remedy

   Heo lufeden bi wurten, bi moren, and bi rote; nas þer nan oðer boten. — Layamon's Brut, 1275

Usage notes

• Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.

Synonyms

• estovers

Derived terms

Derived terms

• burghbote
• cartbote
• firebote
• frithbote

• haybote
• hedgebote
• housebote
• maegbote

• manbote
• plowbote, ploughbote
• theftbote
• wainbote

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

• Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• -to-be, Tebo, Tobe, beot, boet, to-be, tobe

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Afrikaans

Noun

bote

1. plural of boot

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Old French

Etymology 1

Noun

bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

1. boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)

Descendants

• English: boot (borrowed)
• French: botte

Etymology 2

Latin buttis.

Noun

bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

1. cask; barrel

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

bote m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)

1. Alternative form of bat

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.tɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.te/

Etymology 1

From Old French bot, from Middle English boot, from Old English bāt.

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

1. rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
2. (by extension) any small boat

Synonyms

• (small boat): barquinho

Etymology 2

From botar (“to put; to lay”).

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

1. (biology) an animal’s sudden thrust forward towards its prey
2. (figuratively) a sudden attack
3. (Brazil, soccer) a goalkeeper’s jump to catch the ball

Derived terms

• errar o bote

Verb

bote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of botar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of botar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of botar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of botar

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old English bāt

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

1. boat
2. vessel, container
3. jackpot (large cash prize)

Synonyms

• (boat): barco
• (container): recipiente

Derived terms

• a bote pronto
• bote salvavidas
• chupar del bote
• de bote
• de bote y voleo
• de bote en bote
• en el bote

Verb

bote

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of botar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of botar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of botar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of botar.

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Tagalog

Noun

bote

1. bottle

Synonyms

• botelya (dated)

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Venetian

Noun

bote

1. plural of bota