cote
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt
- Homophone: coat
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
editcote (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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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
editRelated terms
editEtymology 2
editSee quote.
Verb
editcote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
Etymology 3
editProbably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.
Verb
editcote (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
editFrench
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.
Noun
editcote 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
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editcote
- inflection of coter:
Further reading
edit- “cote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈko.te/
- Rhymes: -ote
- Hyphenation: có‧te
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.te/
- Rhymes: -ɔte
- Hyphenation: cò‧te
Noun
editcote f (plural coti)
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.te/, [ˈkoːt̪ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.te/, [ˈkɔːt̪e]
Noun
editcōte
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcote (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
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “cōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Etymology 2
editUnknown; probably related to Dutch koet.
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcote (plural cootes)
- coot (Fulica atra)
- seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “cọ̄te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Norwegian Bokmål
editNoun
editcote m
Norwegian Nynorsk
editNoun
editcote m
Old English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcote
Old French
editNoun
editcote oblique singular, f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)
- Alternative form of cotte
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editco (“what, how”) + de (“from it”)
Pronunciation
editParticle
editcote
- 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
editMutation
editOld 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. |
References
edit- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
edit- 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
editVerb
editcote
- inflection of cotar:
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- enm:Clothing
- enm:Freshwater birds
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