bot
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɒt/
- (US) enPR: bŏt, IPA(key): /bɑt/
Audio (US) (file)
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: bought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bot (plural bots)
- The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
- 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:
- One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
- 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:
- Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
From bottom.
Verb edit
bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
- (British, slang) To bugger.
- (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
- Synonym: (UK) bum
- Can I bot a smoke?
- Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.
Etymology 3 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
bot (plural bots)
- (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
- 1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130:
- I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
- 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void[2]:
- The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
- (computing) A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
- 2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference[3], page 42:
- The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
- 2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style[4], page 91:
- He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.
- 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies[5], page 59:
- Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.
- 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic[6], retrieved 2021-09-01:
- Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.
- (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
- (video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.
- 2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer[7]:
- "That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."
- (Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves.
Derived terms edit
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Translations edit
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Verb edit
bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)
- (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
- Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch bot, from botte. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ.
Noun edit
bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)
Verb edit
bot (present bot, present participle bot, past participle gebot)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *buttaz.
Adjective edit
bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
bot
- Alternative spelling of bod
References edit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Bislama edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bot
Catalan edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz, *baitą (“boat, small ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbɔt]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈbot]
Audio (Catalonia) (file) - Rhymes: -ot
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots)
Etymology 3 edit
Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”), probably of Ancient Greek origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots)
- wineskin
- Synonym: odre
- bagpipes
- Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
- sunfish (large marine fish of the family Molidae)
- Synonym: mola
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “bot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “bot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “bot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “bot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bot
- inflection of botre:
Dalmatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.
Noun edit
bot m
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch bot, but, butte, related to Middle Low German but (“dull, plump, coarse”), West Frisian bot (“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).
Adjective edit
bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)
- not sharp, blunt, dull
- De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen.
- The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.
- impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
- Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens.
- His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.
Declension edit
Inflection of bot | ||||
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uninflected | bot | |||
inflected | botte | |||
comparative | botter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | bot | botter | het botst het botste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | botte | bottere | botste |
n. sing. | bot | botter | botste | |
plural | botte | bottere | botste | |
definite | botte | bottere | botste | |
partitive | bots | botters | — |
Declension edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch but. Cognate with English butt, German Butt, in all senses.
Noun edit
bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
From Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with English butt (“flatfish”), German Butt (“lefteye flounder”), West Frisian bot (“flounder”).
Noun edit
bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)
- flounder (a type of fish)
- Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen.
- I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)
Etymology 5 edit
Borrowed from English bot, from robot.
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)
- A bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games).
Related terms edit
French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle French bot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“butt, stump, end”). If so, a doublet of but.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)
- (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
- un pied bot ― a clubfoot
- (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
- une main bote ― a deformed hand
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots)
Further reading edit
- “bot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bot
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
From a Slavic, language, from Proto-Slavic *bъtъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot (plural botok)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bot | botok |
accusative | botot | botokat |
dative | botnak | botoknak |
instrumental | bottal | botokkal |
causal-final | botért | botokért |
translative | bottá | botokká |
terminative | botig | botokig |
essive-formal | botként | botokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | botban | botokban |
superessive | boton | botokon |
adessive | botnál | botoknál |
illative | botba | botokba |
sublative | botra | botokra |
allative | bothoz | botokhoz |
elative | botból | botokból |
delative | botról | botokról |
ablative | bottól | botoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
boté | botoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
botéi | botokéi |
Possessive forms of bot | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | botom | botjaim |
2nd person sing. | botod | botjaid |
3rd person sing. | botja | botjai |
1st person plural | botunk | botjaink |
2nd person plural | bototok | botjaitok |
3rd person plural | botjuk | botjaik |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- bot in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- bot in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Jamaican Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
bot
- but
- Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.
- He warned you many times, but you didn't listen.
Further reading edit
- bot at majstro.com
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
bot
- Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English bāt.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot (plural botes)
- A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
- (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: boat
- Scots: bate, bait
- → Middle Dutch: boot
- → Middle Low German: bôt, bott
- → North Frisian: böötj
- → Saterland Frisian: Boot
- → West Frisian: boat
- → Catalan: bot
- → Galician: bote
- → Old French: bot
- → Portuguese: bote
- → Spanish: bote
- → Cebuano: bote
References edit
- “bōt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bot
- Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)
Etymology 3 edit
From Old English batt.
Noun edit
bot
- Alternative form of bat
Etymology 4 edit
From Old English bōt.
Noun edit
bot
- Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)
Etymology 5 edit
From Old French bote.
Noun edit
bot
- Alternative form of bote (“boot”)
Middle Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *bozdos (“tail, penis”) (compare Welsh both (“hub, nave”), Breton bod (“bush, shrub; branch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gwosdʰos (“piece of wood”), compare Proto-Slavic *gvozdь (“nail, tack, peg”).
Noun edit
bot m
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
bot | bot pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
mbot |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)
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References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “bot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bōt f (nominative plural bōte)
- help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
- Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
- mending, repair, improvement
- ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
- compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
- For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
- improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
- Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- bryċġbōt (“repairing of bridges”)
- burgbōt, burhbōt (“liability for repair of the walls of a town or fortress”)
- bōtan, bētan (“to amend, repair, restore, cure, atone”)
- bōtettan (“to improve, repair, to better”)
- bōtlēas (“unpardonable, not to be atoned for by bōt”)
- bōtwyrþe (“pardonable, that can be atoned for by bōt”)
- cynebōt (“king's compensation”)
- dǣdbōt (“amends, atonement, repentance, penitence”)
- dǣdbōtlihting (“mitigation of penance”)
- dǣdbōtnes, dǣdbētnes (“penitence”)
- dolgbōt, dolhbōt (“fine or compensation for wounding”)
- eftbōt (“restoration to health”)
- fǣhþbōt (“payment, fine for engaging in a feud”)
- feohbōt (“money compensation”)
- godbōt (“atonement”)
- hādbōt (“compensation for injury or insult to a priest”)
- mægþbōt (“fine for assault on an unmarried woman”)
- manbōt (“fine paid to the lord of a man slain”)
- mǣgbōt (“compensation paid to the relatives of a murdered man, maegbot”)
- mōnaþbōt (“penance lasting a month”)
- synbōt (“penance”)
- sārbōt (“compensation for wounding”)
- twibōte, twibēte (“subject to double compensation”, adjective, adverb)
- tō bōte (“to boot, with advantage, besides, moreover”)
- wucubōt (“penance lasting a week”)
- wēofodbōt (“fine for injuring a priest”)
- ċiriċbōt (“repair of churches”)
Descendants edit
Old French edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Vulgar Latin *padda, probably a Germanic loan from Frankish *paddā (“toad”). Compare Italian botta (“toad”), Old English padde (“toad”), Old Norse padda (“toad”). More at paddock.
Noun edit
bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular bot, nominative plural boz or botz)
- toad (animal)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “bot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology 2 edit
From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).
Noun edit
bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)
Synonyms edit
Etymology 3 edit
See bat.
Noun edit
bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)
- Alternative form of bat
Etymology 4 edit
See bout.
Noun edit
bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)
- Alternative form of bout
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bot) (sense #1, 'toad' and #2, 'strike')
- bot on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (sense #3, 'boat' and a citation or sense #4, 'end')
Old Javanese edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat (compare Malay berat). Doublet of bwat and wrat.
Adjective edit
bot
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat. Doublet of bwat and wwat.
Noun edit
bot
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- "bot" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Old Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.
Noun edit
bōt f
Declension edit
or
Descendants edit
- Swedish: bot
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old Czech bot, from French botte.
Noun edit
bot m inan (diminutive botek)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bot m animal
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots)
- (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
- (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)
Romanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *botum, perhaps from Latin botulus or from a root *botium, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push, strike”).[1]
Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.
Noun edit
bot n (plural boturi)
Declension edit
Synonyms edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 1: A–B, page 469
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bot m (plural boți)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- bot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot m (plural bots)
- bot (robot)
Further reading edit
- “bot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot c
- fine (penalty in money)
Usage notes edit
- In newer usage, the indefinite plural böter has frequently been reinterpreted as a singular noun due to usage without an article. Thus, for example, the common phrase "betala böter" has shifted in meaning from "pay fines" to "pay a fine". This is unrecognized by language authorities, however.
Declension edit
Declension of bot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bot | boten | böter | böterna |
Genitive | bots | botens | böters | böternas |
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Originally the same word as etymology 1.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot c
Declension edit
Declension of bot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bot | boten | boter | boterna |
Genitive | bots | botens | boters | boternas |
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bot.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot c
- bot (robot)
Declension edit
Declension of bot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bot | botten | bottar | bottarna |
Genitive | bots | bottens | bottars | bottarnas |
Declension of bot | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bot | boten | botar | botarna |
Genitive | bots | botens | botars | botarnas |
Further reading edit
- bot in Svensk ordbok.
Tatar edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).
Noun edit
bot
Turkish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Volapük edit
Noun edit
bot (nominative plural bots)
Declension edit
West Frisian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Frisian butie, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end piece”), related to English butt.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bot
Inflection edit
Inflection of bot | ||||
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uninflected | bot | |||
inflected | botte | |||
comparative | botter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | bot | botter | it botst it botste | |
indefinite | c. sing. | botte | bottere | botste |
n. sing. | bot | botter | botste | |
plural | botte | bottere | botste | |
definite | botte | bottere | botste | |
partitive | bots | botters | — |
Further reading edit
- “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Adverb edit
bot
Further reading edit
- “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Etymology 2 edit
Uncertain. Possibly derived from bot (“blunt-headed fish”), in which case ultimately from the source of Etymology 1 above. Compare Dutch bot and the second element of English halibut.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)
- flounder (a type of fish)
Further reading edit
- “bot (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “bot1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute