botte

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Old French bote, from Frankish *butt. See English boot.

botte f (plural bottes)

1. boot (footwear)
2. something resembling a boot

   la botte italienne ― the Italian boot

   une botte à bière ― a boot-shaped beer glass

3. (figuratively) oppression

   Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi.

   The Jews suffered greatly under the oppression of the Nazi regime.

4. (polytechnic jargon) the top of the class in polytechnic school

• botter (“to boot”)
• bottier (“bootmaker”)
• botterie (“boot shop”)

botte

1. first-person singular present indicative of botter
2. third-person singular present indicative of botter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of botter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of botter
5. second-person singular imperative of botter

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (“bundle of flax; tuft”), akin to Middle Low German bōte (“bundle of flax”).

botte f (plural bottes)

1. bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables)
2. bundle, sheaf (of grain)
3. bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay)
4. (by extension) fodder or feed for small livestock
5. a bundle of skeins
6. bunch (large amount of something)
7. (informal) sex, proposed to a woman by a man

   Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain !

   I offered to have sex with her. No luck!

8. bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg)

Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.

botte f (plural bottes)

1. (fencing) thrust

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).

botte f (plural bottes)

1. (nautical) ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)
2. large barrel, cask
3. (historical) a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds
4. (historical) a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons

• “botte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Late Latin buttis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot.te/

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botte f (plural botti)

1. barrel
2. cask

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt.te/

botte f

1. plural of botta

Old French bote.

botte f (plural bottes)

1. (Jersey) boot

• botte à cliou (“hobnail boot”)
• botter (“to boot”)
• hautes bottes (“Wellington boots”)