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dote

See also: doté and dɔte

English

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Etymology 1

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The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).

The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.

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dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
    Synonyms: adore, love
    Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
    • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “A to B”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
      Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections […] ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
    • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
      Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
  3. (intransitive, of trees, rare or obsolete) To rot, decay.
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dote (countable and uncountable, plural dotes)

  1. (countable, Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
  2. (countable, obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
    • 1630, Tinker of Turvey:
      How did his death-bed make him a doate!
  3. (uncountable, rare) Decay in a tree.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English dote (“endowment”) (c. 1450), from Middle French dote (modern dot), from Latin dos.

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dote (plural dotes)

  1. (obsolete) Dowry.

Etymology 3

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From Middle French doter, Latin dōtāre.

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dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

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dote

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

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin dotem.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɔte
  • Hyphenation: dò‧te

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dote f (plural doti)

  1. dowry, dower
  2. gift, talent
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Latin

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dōte

  1. ablative singular of dōs

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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A back-formation from doten.

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dote

  1. An idiot or imbecile; a dotard.
  2. A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.
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  • English: dote
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Etymology 2

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dote

  1. Alternative form of doten

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dōs, dōtem, from Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis (“act of giving”).

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dote m or f

  1. dowry
    Synonyms: arra, arrás
    • ca. 1480, Ordenanzas reales de Castilla. Huete, Álvaro de Castro, 1484. BNM I1338, fol. 243r., (ed. by Ivy A. Corfis, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):
      E sy fijos non ouiere que pierda todos sus bienes las dos partes para la nuestra camara & la otra terçia parte para acusador. E estos bienes que asy se perdieren se entiendan sacadas las debdas & sacado el dote & arras de su muger.
      And if he does not have issue (children), he shall lose all his possessions. Two thirds shall go to our chamber, and the third to the accuser [of blasphemy]. And by these possessions thus lost, his debts shall be considered solved, along with the dowry and downpayment of his wife.
    • 1491, Alfonso X, Siete Partidas (BNM I 766), (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto, 2004, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):
      Ley sesta. como la dote o el arra que resçibe el padre por su fijo o por su fija no deue venir a partiçion entre los otros hermanos.
      Law 6. How the dowry or downpayment that a father receives for [the marriage of] his son or daughter shall not be split among the other siblings.

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Etymology 1

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From Latin dos.

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dote m (plural dotes)

  1. foundation (legacy constituting a permanent fund of a charity)
  2. dowry (property or payment given at time of marriage)
  3. (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) talent
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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dote

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

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdote/ [ˈd̪o.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: do‧te

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish dote (“dowry”, masculine or feminine noun), borrowed from Latin dōtem. Doublet of dosis.

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dote f (plural dotes)

  1. dowry
  2. talent
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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dote

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

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish dote, from Latin dōs.

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dote (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜒ)

  1. dowry
    Synonyms: bigay-kaya, pasalap, ubad, (dialectal) bilang

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  • “dote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Venetan

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dote

  1. plural of dota
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