bote

• bot

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-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt

bote (countable and uncountable, plural botes) (law, historical)

1. 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.

• Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.

• estovers

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə.tə/

bote

1. plural of boot

Clipping of botelya

• IPA^(key): /bo.tɛ/

bote

1. bottle

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

• Hyphenation: bo‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/, [ˈbu.t̪ɪ]

bote

1. a lifeboat

• IPA^(key): /bo˥.te˧/

bote

1. to hit, beat

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

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

• boot, bot, boote

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

bote (plural botes or boten)

1. 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.
2. 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

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

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

• boteles
• boten
• botnen

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

bote (plural botes)

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

• boten

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

• “bọ̄te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.

From Old English bāt.

bote

1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

From Old English bōtian.

bote

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

Perhaps of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bautan (“to strike”).[1]

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)

• French: botte
• → Middle English: bote
  • English: boot
    • → Scots: boot
  • Scots: bute, buit
• → Irish: buatais (from the plural botes)

Latin buttis.

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

1. cask; barrel

See bat.

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

1. Alternative form of bat

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

• Homophone: bot

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

bote m (plural botes)

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

   Synonym: barquinho

Deverbal from botar (“to put; to lay”).

bote m (plural botes)

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

• errar o bote

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bote

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: bo‧te

bote m (plural botes)

1. bounce
2. boat, dinghy

   Synonym: barco

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

   Synonym: recipiente

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

• a bote pronto
• bote de basura
• bote de remo/bote a remos
• bote neutral
• 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

• → Cebuano: bote

bote

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

• “bote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Hyphenation: bo‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/, [ˈbo.te]

Clipping of botelya.

bote

1. bottle

   Synonym: (dated) botelya

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

bote

1. lifeboat
2. speedboat

bote

1. plural of bota

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

bote

1. bottle