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boto

See also: botó, bôto, bōto, bōtō, and bötö

English edit

 
A boto

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbəʊtəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊtəʊ

Noun edit

boto (plural botos)

  1. Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system
    • 2008 April 1, Henry Fountain, “Carrying a Torch, or at Least Sprigs of Grass”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      But in a group where one boto puts on a display, there was much more tail-whacking, biting and other aggressive behavior among the males.

References edit

Anagrams edit

Basque edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish voto.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /boto/, [bo̞.t̪o̞]

Noun edit

boto inan

  1. vote
    Synonym: boz
  2. franchise, suffrage
  3. (religion) vow

Declension edit

Declension of boto (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive boto botoa botoak
ergative botok botoak botoek
dative botori botoari botoei
genitive botoren botoaren botoen
comitative botorekin botoarekin botoekin
causative botorengatik botoarengatik botoengatik
benefactive botorentzat botoarentzat botoentzat
instrumental botoz botoaz botoez
inessive bototan botoan botoetan
locative bototako botoko botoetako
allative bototara botora botoetara
terminative bototaraino botoraino botoetaraino
directive bototarantz botorantz botoetarantz
destinative bototarako botorako botoetarako
ablative bototatik bototik botoetatik
partitive botorik — —
prolative bototzat — —

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • "boto" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “boto” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botre

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

Cebuano edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

See buto.

Noun edit

boto

  1. Misspelling of buto.

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Spanish voto.

Noun edit

boto

  1. vote
    Synonym: botar

Verb edit

boto

  1. to vote
    Synonym: botar

Usage notes edit

(verb: to vote): Botar is often used instead due to its being a homophone of buto in certain accents.

Esperanto edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English boot, French botte.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto (accusative singular boton, plural botoj, accusative plural botojn)

  1. boot

Fijian edit

Noun edit

boto

  1. frog

Galician edit

 
Boto or arroaz boto

Etymology 1 edit

Either onomatopoeic, or from the same Germanic origin as Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs).[1] Compare Dutch bot (“blunt, dull”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto m (plural botos)

  1. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)
    Synonym: arroaz boto

Adjective edit

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

  1. blunt, dull

Etymology 2 edit

From bota.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto m (plural botos)

  1. wineskin, waterskin

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

References edit

  • “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “boto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “boto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “boto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “boto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

bōtō

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐍉

Hawaiian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Ilocano buto (“penis”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto

  1. penis, male genital

Ido edit

Etymology edit

From Esperanto boto, English boot, French botte, Russian боти́нок (botínok), Spanish bota.

Noun edit

boto (plural boti)

  1. boot

Derived terms edit

  • boteto (“short boot, half-boot; shoe”)
  • botizar (“to put boots on, boot”)

Javanese edit

Noun edit

boto

  1. Nonstandard spelling of bata.

Mogum edit

Noun edit

boto

  1. sister

References edit

Nias edit

Noun edit

boto (mutated form mboto)

  1. body

References edit

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 47.

Old High German edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *budô. Cognate to Old High German biotan (“to offer, send, command”).

Noun edit

boto m

  1. messenger, envoy

Declension edit

Declension of boto (masculine n-stem)
case singular plural
nominative boto boton, botun
accusative boton, botun boton, botun
genitive boten, botin botōno
dative boten, botin botōm, botōn

Descendants edit

  • Middle High German: bote

Papiamentu edit

Etymology edit

From Dutch boot and Portuguese bote and Spanish bote.

Noun edit

boto

  1. boat, ship, vessel

Portuguese edit

Etymology 1 edit

Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from Tupi-Guarani *butu, *boto.[1]

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto m (plural botos)

  1. boto (Inia geoffrensis, a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon)
    Synonym: tucuxi
  2. (loosely) any dolphin, especially a freshwater one
    Synonyms: delfim, golfinho

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Poelzl, V. (2010). Brazil: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette. Singapore: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited, p. 54

Etymology 2 edit

Unknown. Perhaps a Germanic borrowing, from Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs, “dull, deaf”).

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

  1. dull (lacking a sharp edge or point)
    Synonyms: cego, embotado, rombo
  2. dull; slow (unable to think quickly)
    Synonyms: devagar, embotado, lento

Etymology 3 edit

From Konkani [script needed] (bhat), from Sanskrit भट्ट (bhaṭṭa).

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto m (plural botos)

  1. (Hinduism) Bhat (Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas)

Etymology 4 edit

Unknown. Perhaps from a derivative of Late Latin buttis, butta (“barrel, cask”), or otherwise related to bota (“boot”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boto m (plural botos)

  1. (regional) wineskin, water skin (container for liquids made out of animal hide)
    Synonym: odre

Etymology 5 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

Spanish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs).

Adjective edit

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

  1. blunt
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

boto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

Further reading edit

Sranan Tongo edit

Etymology edit

From English boat or Dutch boot.

Noun edit

boto

  1. boat

Tagalog edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish voto, from Latin vōtum. Doublet of boda.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈboto/, [ˈbo.to]
  • Hyphenation: bo‧to

Noun edit

boto (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜓ)

  1. vote
  2. vow

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

  • “boto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Toba Batak edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Batak *bətəh.

Verb edit

boto (active umboto or mamboto)

  1. to know

Venetian edit

Etymology edit

Related to the Italian verb buttare (“to toss, fling, throw about”), from Old French bouter (“to strike”).

Noun edit

boto m (plural boti)

  1. explosion, bang
  2. thud, thump
  3. toll (of a bell)
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