bode

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /boʊd/
• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophone: bowed (in one sense)

Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). See bid.

Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”).

Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.

bode (third-person singular simple present bodes, present participle boding, simple past and past participle boded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.

   Synonyms: portend, presage, foreshow

   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene i:

     O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,

     And crown what I profess with kind event

     If I speak true; if hollowly invert

     What best is boded me to mischief: I,

     Beyond all limit of what else i' th' world,

     Do love, prize, honour you.

2. (intransitive, followed by well or ill) To betoken or augur something good or bad that would happen in the future.
   • Dryden

     Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.

• bodement
• forebode

bode (plural bodes)

1. An omen; a foreshadowing.

   Chaucer

   The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.

From Middle English bod, from Old English bod (“a bidding”), from Proto-Germanic *budą (“a bidding, offer”). Cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, Icelandic boð, Faroese boð, Norwegian Nynorsk bod, Norwegian Bokmål bud. Compare also Old Saxon gibod, German Gebot. See bid.

bode (plural bodes)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A bid; an offer.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)

From Middle English bode, from Old English boda (“messenger, forerunner”), from Proto-Germanic *budô (“messenger”). Cognate with Dutch bode (“messenger, harbinger”), German Bote (“messenger”).

bode (plural bodes)

1. A messenger; a herald.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robertson to this entry?)

From Middle English bod, abod (“a stopping”).

bode (plural bodes)

1. A stop; a halting; delay.

Inflected form of bide.

bode

1. simple past tense of bide
   • Tennyson

     There that night they bode.

• “bode” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• Debo, Obed, bedo

Borrowed from English body.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɓó.ɗe/

bóde class 5 (plural mabóde class 6)

1. body of a lorry

• IPA^(key): /ˈbodɛ/
• Rhymes: -odɛ
• Hyphenation: bo‧de

bode

1. vocative singular of bod

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːdə/

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From Middle Dutch bōde, from Old Dutch bodo, from Proto-Germanic *budô.

bode m or f (plural boden or bodes, diminutive bodetje n)

1. messenger
2. servant

• bodes
• bodin
• bodenbrood
• bodenkamer
• bodenloon
• dienstbode
• geluksbode
• gerechtsbode
• ijlbode
• jobsbode
• renbode
• snelbode
• onheilsbode
• postbode

See the etymology of the main entry.

bode

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of bieden

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔðe̝/

bode m (plural bodes)

1. buck, billy goat

   Synonym: castrón

2. goatskin

   Synonym: fol

• bode seixo

• “bode” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “bode” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “bode” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bode” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bode” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bode

1. (intransitive) to stop

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “bode”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 10

From Old Dutch bodo, from Proto-Germanic *budô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːdə/

bōde m

1. messenger
2. servant

• Dutch: bode

• “bode (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bode (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

bode

1. past participle of by

bode

1. to bathe, to lave

Unknown. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔˑðɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔˑd͡ʒi/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔˑdi/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔˑde/
• Hyphenation: bo‧de

bode m (plural bodes)

1. goat buck, billy goat

• (goat buck): cabrão

• bode expiatório

• Hyphenation: bo‧de

bode m (plural bodes)

1. goat buck

• cabrón

bode

1. dative singular of bod