cote

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

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

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.

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 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.

• shed

• bellcote
• dovecote
• sheepcote

See quote.

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

1. Obsolete form of quote.

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

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 606515358, [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.

• Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/

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

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

• avoir la cote

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cote

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

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

From Latin cōtem.

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

cote f (plural coti)

1. sharpening stone
2. hone

• Ceto, Toce, ceto, ecto-, teco

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

cōte

1. ablative singular of cōs

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/

cote (plural cotes)

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

• cote armure
• surcote

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

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

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

• coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/

cote (plural cootes)

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

• English: coot
• Scots: cuit

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

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

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

1. Alternative form of cotte

• cate, catte

co (“what, how”) +‎ de (“from it”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodʲe/

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.)?

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

• 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 30008057, pages 140–150

cote

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