cote
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt
- Homophone: coat
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English cote, 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 edit
cote (plural cotes)
- A cottage or hut.
- A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See quote.
Verb edit
cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
Etymology 3 edit
Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.
Verb edit
cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
- (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
- A dog cotes a hare.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.
Noun edit
cote f (plural cotes)
- call number
- ratings
- cote de popularité ― approval rating, popularity
- avoir la cote ― to be popular
- (architecture) dimension
- (finance, stock market) quote
- (horse racing, gambling) odds
- (finance) tax assessment
- Synonym: quote-part
- (analytic geometry) applicate, z-coordinate (the last of the three terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of Cartesian coordinates for a three-dimensional space)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
cote
- inflection of coter:
Further reading edit
- “cote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈko.te/
- Rhymes: -ote
- Hyphenation: có‧te
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.te/
- Rhymes: -ɔte
- Hyphenation: cò‧te
Noun edit
cote f (plural coti)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.te/, [ˈkoːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.te/, [ˈkɔːt̪e]
Noun edit
cōte
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cote (plural cotes)
- A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
- A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
- A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cote (plural cootes)
- coot (Fulica atra)
- seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “cọ̄te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
cote m
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
cote m
Old French edit
Noun edit
cote oblique singular, f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)
- Alternative form of cotte
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
co (“what, how”) + de (“from it”)
Pronunciation edit
Particle edit
cote
- of what sort is…?
- 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. 12c36
- 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.)?
- 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. 12c36
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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 edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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
- E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150
Portuguese edit
Verb edit
cote
- inflection of cotar: