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-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bəʊt/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /boʊt/
Noun
bote (plural botes) (law, historical)
- The 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.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Noun
bote
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Old English bāt.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bo‧te
Noun
bote
- a lifeboat
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bōt, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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 themself 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
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Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte); ultimately of Germanic origin.
Alternative forms
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Northern ME" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. but, buyt, bute
- boot, bot, boote
Pronunciation
Noun
bote (plural botes)
- A boot or similar item of footwear; a shoe with a cover for part of the leg.
- (rare) A cover for the leg.
Derived terms
Descendants
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
- Alternative form of bot (“boat”)
Etymology 4
From Old English bōtian.
Verb
bote
- Alternative form of boten (“to resolve”)
Old French
Etymology 1
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
Etymology 2
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin buttis.
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)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Portugal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.tɨ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "South Brazil" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French bot, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English boot, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bāt.
Noun
bote m (plural botes)
- rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
- (by extension) any small boat
- Synonym: barquinho
Etymology 2
From botar (“to put; to lay”).
Noun
bote m (plural s)
- (biology) an animal’s sudden thrust forward towards its prey
- (figurative) a sudden attack
- (Brazil, soccer) a goalkeeper’s jump to catch the ball
Derived terms
Verb
bote
Spanish
Etymology
From Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bote m (plural botes)
Synonyms
- (boat): barco
- (container): recipiente
Derived terms
- a bote pronto
- bote salvavidas
- chupar del bote
- darse el bote
- de bote
- de bote y voleo
- de bote en bote
- en el bote
- bote de remos (“rowboat”)
- bote de premios (“prize pool”)
Verb
bote
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of botar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of botar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of botar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of botar.
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bote
Synonyms
- botelya (dated)
Venetian
Noun
bote
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