cote

See also: Cote, coté, côte, côté, and Côte

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəʊt/
• IPA^(key): /koʊt/

Etymology 1

From the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

1. A cottage or hut.
2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.

Synonyms

• shed

Related terms

• dovecote
• sheepcote

Etymology 2

See quote.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To quote.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French.

Verb

1. To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.

   A dog cotes a hare.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.

   • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:

     [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus

Noun

cote f (plural cotes)

1. call number
2. ratings, popularity, approval rating (of a politician)
3. (architecture) dimension
4. (finance, stock market) quote
5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
6. (finance) tax assessment

Synonyms

• (tax assessment): quote-part

Etymology 2

Inflected forms

Verb

cote

1. first-person singular present indicative of coter
2. third-person singular present indicative of coter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of coter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of coter
5. second-person singular imperative of coter

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōtem, accusative of cōs.

Noun

cote f (plural coti)

1. sharpening stone
2. hone

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.te/, [ˈkoːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.te/, [ˈkɔːt̪e]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cōte

1. ablative singular of cōs

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Alternative forms

• coote, coete, coyt, kote, coot, koote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

2. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
3. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
4. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

Related terms

• cote armure

Descendants

• English: coat
• Scots: coat

References

• “cōte (n.(2))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

Alternative forms

• coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/

Noun

cote (plural cootes)

2. coot (Fulica atra)
3. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)

Descendants

• English: coot
• Scots: cuit

References

• “cọ̄te (n.(4))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

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Old French

Noun

cote oblique singular, f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)

1. Alternative form of cotte

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cate, catte

Etymology

co (“how”) +‎ de (“from it”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodʲe/

Particle

cote

1. of what sort is…?
2. what is…?
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c36

     Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?

     What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cote	chote	cote pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 462, 466

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Portuguese

Verb

cote

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