bote

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

English

Alternative forms

• bot

Etymology

Borrowed 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”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊt/

Noun

bote (plural botes) (law, historical)

1. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
3. 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

• estovers

Derived terms

Derived terms

• boteless
• 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə.tə/

Noun

bote

1. plural of boot

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Old English bāt.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bo‧te

Noun

bote

1. a lifeboat

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bōt, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

Alternative forms

• boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːt/

Noun

bote (plural botes or boten)

2. 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

   1. Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
   2. Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
   3. An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themself from danger.
   4. Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
   5. A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
3. 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

4. Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
5. The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
6. (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
7. (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
8. (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
9. (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

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

Related terms

• boteles
• boten
• botnen

Descendants

• English: boot
• → English: bote (also from Old English bōt)
• Scots: bute, buit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte); ultimately of Germanic origin.

Alternative forms

• (Northern ME) but, buyt, bute
• boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːt/

Noun

bote (plural botes)

2. A boot or similar item of footwear; a shoe with a cover for part of the leg.
3. (rare) A cover for the leg.

Derived terms

• boten

Descendants

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

References

• “bọ̄te (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.

Etymology 3

From Old English bāt.

Noun

bote

1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 4

From Old English bōtian.

Verb

bote

1. Alternative form of boten (“to resolve”)

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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

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.te/
• 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

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.tɛ/

Noun

bote

1. bottle

Synonyms

• botelya (dated)

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Venetian

Noun

bote

1. plural of bota