bote

See also: Bote, boté, bóte, böte, and botë

English

Alternative forms

• bot

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəʊt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊt/

Noun

bote (plural botes) (law, historical)

1. The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
3. 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.

Synonyms

• estovers

Derived terms

Derived terms

• boteless
• burghbote
• cartbote
• firebote
• frithbote

• haybote
• hedgebote
• housebote
• maegbote

• manbote
• plowbote, ploughbote
• theftbote
• wainbote

References

• bote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

• -to-be, Beto, Tebo, Tobe, beot, boet, to-be, tobe

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə.tə/

Noun

bote

1. plural of boot

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Bikol Central

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.tɛ/

Noun

bote

1. bottle

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bo‧te

Noun

bote

1. a lifeboat

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Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo˥.te˧/

Verb

bote

1. to hit, beat

References

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[1], Payap University, page 48

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bōt, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

Alternative forms

• boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

Noun

bote (plural botes or boten)

2. 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

   1. Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
   2. Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
   3. An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themself from danger.
   4. Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
   5. A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
3. 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

4. Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
5. The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
6. (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
7. (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
8. (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
9. (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

   • Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400

Related terms

• boteles
• boten
• botnen

Descendants

• English: boot
• → English: bote (also from Old English bōt)
• Scots: bute, buit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte); ultimately of Germanic origin.

Alternative forms

• (Northern ME) but, buyt, bute
• boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

Noun

bote (plural botes)

2. A boot or similar item of footwear; a shoe with a cover for part of the leg.
3. (rare) A cover for the leg.

Derived terms

• boten

Descendants

• English: boot
  • → Scots: boot
• Scots: bute, buit

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

1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 4

From Old English bōtian.

Verb

bote

1. Alternative form of boten (“to resolve”)

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Old French

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bautan (“to strike”).

Noun

bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

1. boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)

Descendants

• → English: boot
• French: botte

Etymology 2

Latin buttis.

Noun

bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

1. cask; barrel

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

bote m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)

1. Alternative form of bat

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/, [ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi]

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈbɔ.tɨ/, [ˈbɔ.tɨ]

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.te/
• Homophone: bot

Etymology 1

From Old French bot, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt.

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

1. rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
2. (by extension) any small boat

   Synonym: barquinho

Etymology 2

From botar (“to put; to lay”).

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

1. (biology) an animal’s sudden thrust forward towards its prey
2. (figuratively) a sudden attack
3. (Brazil, soccer) a goalkeeper’s jump to catch the ball

Derived terms

• errar o bote

Verb

bote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of botar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of botar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of botar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of botar

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/, [ˈbo.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

1. boat, dinghy

   Synonym: barco

2. vessel, can, canister, container, jar, tin

   Synonym: recipiente

3. jackpot, pot, pool (large cash prize)

Derived terms

• a bote pronto
• bote de remo
• 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”)
• bote volador

Descendants

• → Cebuano: bote

Verb

bote

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of botar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of botar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of botar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of botar.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.tɛ/

Noun

bote

1. bottle

Synonyms

• botelya (dated)

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Venetian

Noun

bote

1. plural of bota

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Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Noun

bote

1. bottle