cote

See also: Côté, Côte, Coté, Cote, coté, côte, and côté

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt
• Homophone: coat

Etymology 1

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

cote (plural cotes)

1. A cottage or hut.
2. 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

• shed

Related terms

• bellcote
• dovecote
• sheepcote

Etymology 2

See quote.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. Obsolete form of quote.

Etymology 3

Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/

Etymology 1

From Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.

Noun

cote f (plural cotes)

1. call number
2. ratings, popularity, approval rating (of a politician)
3. (architecture) dimension
4. (finance, stock market) quote
5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
6. (finance) tax assessment

   Synonym: quote-part

Derived terms

• avoir la cote

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cote

1. inflection of coter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōtem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.te/
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: có‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɔte
  • Syllabification: cò‧te

Noun

cote f (plural coti)

1. sharpening stone
2. hone

Anagrams

• Ceto, Toce, ceto, ecto-, teco

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.te/, [ˈkoːt̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.te/, [ˈkɔːt̪e]

Noun

cōte

1. ablative singular of cōs

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Alternative forms

• coete, coot, coote, coyt, koote, kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

2. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
3. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
4. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

Related terms

• cote armure
• surcote

Descendants

• English: coat
• Scots: coat
• Yola: cooat, coat

References

• “cōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

Alternative forms

• coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/

Noun

cote (plural cootes)

2. coot (Fulica atra)
3. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)

Descendants

• English: coot
• Scots: cuit

References

• “cọ̄te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Old French

Noun

cote f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)

1. Alternative form of cotte

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cate, catte

Etymology

co (“what, how”) +‎ de (“from it”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodʲe/

Particle

cote

1. of what sort is…?
2. 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. 12^c36

     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.)?

Descendants

• Irish: goidé, cad é, cad
• Scottish Gaelic: ciod e, dè, ciod

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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

• 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 2003), 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

Verb

cote

1. inflection of cotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative