Gebot

From Middle High German gebot, from Old High German gibot. Compare Dutch gebod (“commandment”), Old English gebod (“order, command, mandate”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈboːt/
• Rhymes: -oːt

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Gebot n (strong, genitive Gebotes or Gebots, plural Gebote, diminutive Gebötlein n)

1. command, commandment
2. bid, bidding

• Zehn Gebote (“the Ten Commandments”)

• Anweisung
• Befehl
• Imperativ

• “Gebot” in Duden online
• “Gebot” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Gebot” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• Gebott (dated)

From earlier Gebott, influenced by German Gebot, both from Middle High German gebot, from Old High German gibot. Cognate with Dutch gebod.

• IPA^(key): /ɡeˈboːt/, [ɡəˈboːt]

Gebot n (plural Geboter)

1. commandment, command

• Gebot in the Lëtzebuerger Online Dictionnaire