boto

Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊtəʊ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -əʊtəʊ

boto (plural botos)

1. Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system
   • 2008 April 1, Henry Fountain, “Carrying a Torch, or at Least Sprigs of Grass”, in New York Times‎:

     But in a group where one boto puts on a display, there was much more tail-whacking, biting and other aggressive behavior among the males.

• boto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inia geoffrensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• BOOT, Boot, OOTB, boot

boto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of botre

• Hyphenation: bo‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈboto/, [ˈbu.t̪ʊ]
• Homophone: buto (certain accents)

See buto.

boto

1. Misspelling of buto.

Borrowed from Spanish voto.

boto

1. vote

   Synonym: botar

boto

1. to vote

   Synonym: botar

(verb: to vote): Botar is often used instead due to its being a homophone of buto in certain accents.

Borrowed from English boot, French botte.

• IPA^(key): [ˈboto]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: bo‧to

boto (accusative singular boton, plural botoj, accusative plural botojn)

1. boot

boto

1. frog

Either onomatopoeic, or from the same Germanic origin as Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs).[1] Compare Dutch bot (“blunt, dull”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈboto̝/

boto m (plural botos)

1. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)

   Synonym: arroaz boto

boto m (feminine singular bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. blunt, dull

From bota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔto̝/

boto m (plural botos)

1. wineskin, waterskin

• “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “boto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “boto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “boto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bōtō

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐍄𐍉

From Ilocano boto (“penis”).

• IPA^(key): /boto/

boto

1. penis, male genital

From Esperanto boto, English boot, French botte, Russian боти́нок (botínok), Spanish bota.

boto (plural boti)

1. boot

• boteto (“short boot, half-boot; shoe”)
• botizar (“to put boots on, boot”)

boto

1. Nonstandard spelling of bata.

boto (mutated form mboto)

1. body

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 47.

Cognate to Old High German biotan (“to offer, send, command”).

boto m

1. messenger, envoy

• German: Bote

From Dutch boot and Portuguese bote and Spanish bote.

boto

1. boat, ship, vessel

Unknown.

• bôto (obsolete)

boto m (plural botos)

1. boto (Inia geoffrensis, a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon)

   Synonym: tucuxi

2. (loosely) any dolphin, especially a freshwater one

   Synonyms: delfim, golfinho

Unknown.

• bôto (obsolete)

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. dull (lacking a sharp edge or point)

   Synonyms: cego, embotado, rombo

2. dull; slow (unable to think quickly)

   Synonyms: devagar, embotado, lento

From Konkani [script needed] (bhat), from Sanskrit भट्ट (bhaṭṭa).

• bôto (obsolete)

boto m (plural botos)

1. (Hinduism) Bhat (Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas)

Unknown.

boto m (plural botos)

1. (regional) wineskin, water skin (container for liquids made out of animal hide)

   Synonym: odre

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boto

1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

• IPA^(key): /ˈboto/ [ˈbo.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: bo‧to
• Homophone: voto

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (bauþs).

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. blunt

• embotar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

boto

1. first-person singular present indicative of botar

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

From English boat or Dutch boot.

boto

1. boat

From Spanish voto.

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

boto

1. vote
2. vow

From Proto-Batak *bətəh.

boto (active umboto or mamboto)

1. to know

boto m (plural boti)

1. explosion, bang
2. thud, thump
3. toll (of a bell)