bote
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed 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-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boʊt/
Noun
bote (plural botes) (law, historical)
- The atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
- A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
- A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Usage notes
- Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
- Middle English Dictionary
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Old English bāt.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bo‧te
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bōt, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boːt/
Noun
- 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
- Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
- Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
- An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themself from danger.
- Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
- A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
- 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
- Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
- The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
- (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
- (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
- (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
- (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
- Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte); ultimately of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boːt/
Noun
bote (plural botes)
Derived terms
References
- “bọ̄te (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.
Etymology 3
From Old English bāt.
Etymology 4
From Old English bōtian.
Old French
Noun
bote f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)
- boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)
Etymology 3
See bat.
Noun
bote m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)
- Alternative form of bat
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.tɨ/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃi/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.te/
Etymology 1
From Old French bot, from Middle English boot, from Old English bāt.
Synonyms
- (small boat): barquinho
Etymology 2
From botar (“to put; to lay”).
Noun
bote m (plural botes)
Derived terms
- errar o bote
Spanish
Etymology
From Old English bāt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbo.te/
- Rhymes: -ote
Synonyms
- (boat): barco
- (container): recipiente
Derived terms
- a bote pronto
- bote salvavidas
- chupar del bote
- de bote
- de bote y voleo
- de bote en bote
- en el bote