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bot

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English

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Etymology 1

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Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”).

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bot (plural bots)

  1. 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.
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Etymology 2

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From bottom.

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bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (British, slang) To bugger.
  2. (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.

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    Clipping of robot.

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    bot (plural bots)

    1. (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.
      • 2005, Greg Bear, Quantico‎[1], page 71:
        As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
      • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void‎[2]:
        The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
    2. (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.
    3. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
      Synonyms: NPC, AI
      • 2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
        Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.
    4. (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."
    5. (Internet slang, often derogatory) A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:jerk
      • [2024 June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, in New Scientist‎[8], →ISSN, retrieved 2024-06-10:
        The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with[.]]
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    bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

    1. (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
      Players caught botting will be banned from the server.
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    • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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    Afrikaans

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    Etymology 1

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    From Dutch bot, from botte. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ.

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    bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

    1. sprout, bud

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    bot (present bot, present participle bot, past participle gebot)

    1. to sprout, to bud
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    Etymology 2

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    From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *buttaz.

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    bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)

    1. blunt, dull (of an object)
    2. obtuse, dull, stupid
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    bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

    1. a bone
    2. (fish) flounder, fluke, butt
      Synonym: botvis
    3. (parasitic flatworm) fluke
      Synonym: slakwurm

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    bot

    1. Alternative spelling of bod

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    Bislama

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    From English boat.

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    bot

    1. boat

    Catalan

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    Etymology 1

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    Deverbal from botar.

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    bot m (plural bots)

    1. jump, leap
      Synonyms: salt, saltiró
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    Etymology 2

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    Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”).

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    bot m (plural bots)

    1. boat
      Synonyms: barca, vaixell

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    Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”), probably of Ancient Greek origin.

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    bot m (plural bots)

    1. wineskin
      Synonym: odre
    2. bagpipes
      Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
    3. sunfish (large marine fish of the family Molidae)
      Synonym: mola
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    bot

    1. inflection of botre:
      1. third-person singular present indicative
      2. second-person singular imperative

    Dalmatian

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    Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.

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    bot m

    1. blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

    Dutch

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    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”).

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    bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

    2. 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.
    3. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
      Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens.
      His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.
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    Declension of bot
    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 —
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    • Berbice Creole Dutch: dofu
    • → Papiamentu: bòt

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    From Middle Dutch but. Cognate with English butt, German Butt, in all senses.

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    bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

    2. bone
      Synonyms: been, knekel, knook
      De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebroken bot heeft.
      The doctor has determined that he has a broken bone.
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    From Middle Dutch bot, from Old Dutch *but, from Proto-West Germanic *butt (“stumpy”), from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with English butt (“flatfish”), German Butt (“lefteye flounder”), West Frisian bot (“flounder”).

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    bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

    2. flounder (a type of fish)
      Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen.
      I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.
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    • Afrikaans: bot
    • → West Frisian: bot

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    From French botte.

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    bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

    1. (Belgium) boot

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    Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

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    bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

    1. a bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games)
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    Etymology 1

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    From Middle French bot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“butt, stump, end”). If so, a doublet of but.

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    bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)

    1. (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
      un pied bot ― a clubfoot
    2. (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
      une main bote ― a deformed hand

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    From English bot.

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    bot m (plural bots)

    1. (computing) bot

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    German

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    bot

    1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

    Hungarian

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    From a Slavic, language, from Proto-Slavic *bъtъ.

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    bot (plural botok)

    1. stick, staff
    2. walking stick, cane
      Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

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    Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
    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
    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

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    • 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 Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

    Indonesian

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    Borrowed from English boot, from Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Compare Standard Malay but.

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    bot (plural bot-bot)

    1. (footware) boot: a heavy shoe that covers part of the leg

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    Borrowed from English bot.

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    bot (plural bot-bot)

    1. bot:
      1. (science fiction) a physical robot
      2. (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
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    Unknown. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

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    bot (plural bot-bot)

    1. a container made from nibung fronds, usually used to hold water

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    Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

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    bot

    1. arching the back to stretch the body

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    Jamaican Creole

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    Derived from English but.

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    bot

    1. but
      Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.
      He warned you many times, but you didn't listen.

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    • bot at majstro.com

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    bot

    1. Romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀

    Middle English

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    From Old English bāt.

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    bot (plural botes)

    1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft; a device for navigating the waters:
      1. A boat (a watercraft or vessel smaller than a ship).
      2. A boat stowed on a ship for utility purposes, especially for tendering.
    2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.
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    From Old Norse búð.

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    bot

    1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

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    From Old English batt.

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    bot

    1. Alternative form of bat

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    From Old English bōt.

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    bot

    1. Alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

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    From Old French bote.

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    bot

    1. Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

    Middle Irish

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    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”).

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    bot m

    1. tail
    2. penis

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    Mutation of bot
    radical lenition nasalization
    bot bot
    pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/    		 mbot

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Norwegian Bokmål

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    From Old Norse bót.

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    bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

    1. a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
    2. a remedy
    3. a patch

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    From Old Norse bót.

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    bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

    1. a fine (as above)
    2. a remedy
    3. a patch

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    Old Czech

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      Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd-der.
      Proto-Germanic *bautaną
      Frankish *bautander.?
      Old French botebor.
      Old Czech bot

      Borrowed from Old French bote.

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      bot m inan

      1. boot (high, tight, close-fitting, often pointed leather shoe, reaching to the ankles or higher)

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      Declension of bot (hard o-stem)
      singular dual plural
      nominative bot boty boti, botové
      genitive bota, botu botú botóv
      dative botu botoma botóm
      accusative bot boty boty
      vocative bote boty boti, botové
      locative botě, botu botú botiech
      instrumental botem botoma boty
      This table shows the most common forms around the 13th century.
      See also Appendix:Old Czech nouns and Appendix:Old Czech pronunciation.

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      From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).

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      Cognate with Old Frisian bōte, Old Saxon bōta, Dutch boete, Old High German buoza (German Buße), Old Norse bōt (Swedish bot), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐌰 (bōta).

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      bōt f (nominative plural bōte)

      1. help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
        • Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
      2. mending, repair, improvement
        • ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
      3. compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
        • For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
      4. improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
        • Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted

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      Strong ō-stem:

      singular plural
      nominative bōt bōta, bōte
      accusative bōte bōta, bōte
      genitive bōte bōta
      dative bōte bōtum

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      Etymology 1

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      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.

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      bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular bot, nominative plural boz or botz)

      1. toad (animal)
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      From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).

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      bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

      1. strike; hit; blow
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      See bat.

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      bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

      1. Alternative form of bat

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      See bout.

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      bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural bot)

      1. Alternative form of bout

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      • 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')

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      Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat (compare Malay berat). Doublet of bwat and wrat.

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      bot

      1. heavy
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      Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat. Doublet of bwat and wwat.

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      bot

      1. style, make
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      • "bot" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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        Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd-der.
        Proto-Germanic *bautaną
        Frankish *bautander.?
        Old French botebor.
        Old Czech botbor.
        Old Polish bot

        Borrowed from Old Czech bot. The change from bot to but was probably influenced by obuć. First attested in 1415.

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        • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /bɔt/
        • IPA(key): (15th CE) /bɔt/

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        bot m inan (diminutive butek)

        1. (attested in Masovia, Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) footwear, shoe
          • 1920 [1415], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number 2559, Płońsk:
            O ctore boti Mscziszek na mø szalowal, thichem ya v Pechni ne wzøl
            [O ktore boty Mściszek na mię żałował, tychem ja u Piechny nie wziął]
          • 1868 [1448], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎[9], volume XI, page 328:
            Item *budky pro tribus grossis et buthy magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos
            [Item *budky pro tribus grossis et buty magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos]
          • 1930 [c. 1455], “Deut”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎[10], 25, 9:
            Zona... zvge boti z gego nog
            [Żona... zuje boty z jego nog]
          • 1930 [c. 1455], “Jos”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎[11], 5, 16:
            Zvy boty z nog twich, bo myescze, na nyemze to stogis, swymø te gest
            [Zuj boty z nog twych, bo mieście, na niemże to stojisz, swymą te jest]
          • 1927 [c. 1455], Kazimierz Dobrowolski, editor, Przyczynki do dziejów średniowiecznej kultury polskiej z rękopisu szczyrzyckiego, Szczyrzyc, page 324:
            Mnye wthoremu *dzeye luthy. Geszlisz nag, przyodzey[ey] [bo]thy
            [Mnie wtoremu dzieją luty, jesliś nag, przyodziej [bo]ty]
          • 1950 [1470], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 1275, Warsaw:
            Ysze Woczech Marczina, schina szwego, hu Michala... vgednal sza rzadne odzenye y dal mv szuknya sza trzinaccze grozi a bothi za poltrzecza groza, a on oth nyego przez czasu othszethl
            [Iże Wociech Marcina, syna swego, hu Michała... ujednał za rządne odzienie i dał mu suknią za trzynaćcie groszy a boty za połtrzecia grosza, a on ot niego przez czasu odszedł]
          • 1950 [1471], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 3051, Warsaw:
            Jakom ya drogy... kxadzv Janowy... nye zasthapyl... *amy go gonyl, any w them gemv szgynaly bothy, pyerz, sschaffran y vszda
            [Jakom ja drogi... ksiądzu Janowi... nie zastąpił... *a my go gonił, ani w tem jemu zginęły boty, pierz, szafran i uzda]
          • 1923 [1478], Helena Polaczkówna, editor, Najstarsza księga sądowa wsi Trześniowa 1419-1609‎[12], Trześniów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, page 100:
            Expurgans innocenciam suam al. szwoyą nyevynoscz, czosch byla obwyny[o]na o bothy *zyamischowa
            [Expurgans innocenciam suam al. swoją niewinność, coż była obwini[o]na o boty zamszowe]
          • 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116, Warsaw, page 299:
            Alyecz przyydzye mocznyeyszy, chthorego nye yestem dostoyen rosvyąsacz rzemyszka bothow yego
            [Aleć przyjdzie mocniejszy, chtorego nie jestem dostojen rozwięzać rzemyszka botow jego]
          • 1874-1891 [c. 1500], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎[13], [14], [15], volume XLVII, page 354:
            Wyechecz sz botha *blathra
            [Wiecheć z bota *blathra]
          • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎[16], page 235:
            Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i ty boty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało
            [Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i ty boty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało]
          • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎[17], page 387:
            Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę i boty na nogi
            [Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę i boty na nogi]
          • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎[18], page 638:
            Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przez botow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?
            [Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przez botow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?]
          • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 58r:
            *Glipiusz vyechecz s bothą
            [Glipiusz wiecheć z bota]

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        Etymology

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        From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

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        bōt f

        1. improvement
        2. benefit, utility
        3. cure
        4. compensation

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        Declension of bōt (consonant stem)
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative bōt bōtin bø̄ter bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
        accusative bōt bōtina, -ena bø̄ter bø̄trina(r), -rena(r)
        dative bōt bōtinni, -inne bōtum, -om bōtumin, -omen
        genitive bōta(r) inna(r) bōta bōtanna

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        Declension of bōt (i-stem)
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative bōt bōtin bōti(r), -e(r) bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
        accusative bōt bōtina, -ena bōti(r), -e(r) bōtina(r), bōtena(r)
        dative bōt bōtinni, -inne bōtum, -om bōtumin, -omen
        genitive bōta(r) bōtinna(r) bōta bōtanna

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        Polish

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        Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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        Etymology 1

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        Borrowed from English bot.

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        bot m animal

        1. (computing) bot
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        Declension of bot
        singular plural
        nominative bot boty
        genitive bota botów
        dative botowi botom
        accusative bota boty
        instrumental botem botami
        locative bocie botach
        vocative bocie boty

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        See but.

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        bot m inan (diminutive botek)

        1. ankle boot
        2. Middle Polish form of but
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        Declension of bot
        singular plural
        nominative bot boty
        genitive botu botów
        dative botowi botom
        accusative bot boty
        instrumental botem botami
        locative bocie botach
        vocative bocie boty

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        • bot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
        • bot in Polish dictionaries at PWN
        • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bot”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
        • “BUT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 28.04.2010

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        Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

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        • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.t͡ʃi/
          • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/, (proscribed, but common) /ˈbu.te/

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        bot m (plural bots)

        1. (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
        2. (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)

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        Etymology 1

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        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.

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        bot n (plural boturi)

        1. (of animals) snout, mouth
        2. (of a person, vulgar) mouth
        3. bump
        4. hump
        5. (vulgar) blowjob
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        Declension of bot
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative bot botul boturi boturile
        genitive-dative bot botului boturi boturilor
        vocative botule boturilor
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        1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 1: A–B, page 469

        Etymology 2

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        From English bot.

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        bot m (plural boți)

        1. bot
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        Declension of bot
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative bot botul boți boții
        genitive-dative bot botului boți boților
        vocative botule boților

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        Spanish

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from English bot.

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        • IPA(key): /ˈbot/ [ˈbot̪]
        • Rhymes: -ot
        • Syllabification: bot

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        bot m (plural bots)

        1. bot (robot)

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        Etymology 1

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        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.

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        bot c

        1. fine (penalty in money)
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        • 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.
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        Declension of bot
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite bot bots
        definite boten botens
        plural indefinite böter böters
        definite böterna böternas
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        Etymology 2

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        Originally the same word as etymology 1.

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        bot c

        1. cure; remedy
        2. (religious) penance
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        Declension of bot
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite bot bots
        definite boten botens
        plural indefinite boter boters
        definite boterna boternas
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        Etymology 3

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        Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

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        bot c

        1. bot (robot)
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        Declension of bot
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite bot bots
        definite botten bottens
        plural indefinite bottar bottars
        definite bottarna bottarnas
        Declension of bot
        nominative genitive
        singular indefinite bot bots
        definite boten botens
        plural indefinite botar botars
        definite botarna botarnas

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        Etymology

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        From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

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        bot

        1. thigh

        Turkish

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        Etymology 1

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        From French botte.

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        bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

        1. boot

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        From English boat

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        bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

        1. boat
          Synonym: tekne

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        Noun

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        bot (nominative plural bots)

        1. boat

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        Declension of bot
        singular plural
        nominative bot bots
        genitive bota botas
        dative bote botes
        accusative boti botis
        vocative 1 o bot! o bots!
        predicative 2 botu botus

        1 status as a case is disputed
        2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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        Etymology 1

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        From Old Frisian butie, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end piece”), related to English butt.

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        bot

        1. curt, blunt, rude
        2. dull (as a knife)
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        Inflection of bot
        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 —
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        • “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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        bot

        1. very, quite
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        • “bot (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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        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.

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        bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

        1. flounder (a type of fish)
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