bote

• bot

Learned borrowing 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-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /boʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt

bote (countable and uncountable, plural botes) (law, historical)

1. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
3. A right to take wood from property not one's own.

• Often used to form compounds indicating a right to take wood only for a specific purpose.

• estovers

• “bote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Middle English Dictionary

• -to-be, Beto, Tebo, Tobe, beot, boet, to-be, tobe

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə.tə/

bote

1. plural of boot

• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/
• Rhymes: -ote
• Hyphenation: bó‧te

bote f (plural bote, definite botja, definite plural botet)

1. clay vessel; pitcher

   Synonyms: shtambë, poç, kënatë, brokë

2. bump, impact, shock, encounter
3. bottle

   Synonym: shishe

bote

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of botë

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980
• “bote”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “bote”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 34

Clipping of botelya.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.te]
• Hyphenation: bo‧te

bóte

1. bottle

From Spanish bote (“boat”), from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

• Hyphenation: bo‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.t̪e]

bote

1. a lifeboat

bote

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

• IPA^(key): /bo˥.te˧/

bote

1. to hit, beat

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[2], Payap University, page 48

From Old English bōt, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtu, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

• boot, bot, boote

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

bote (plural botes or boten)

2. 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

   1. Saving or extrication from distress or danger; something or someone which provides it.
   2. Salvation (release or rescue from eternal punishment), or one who acts as salvation
   3. An avenue of escape; a method through which one can release themselves from danger.
   4. Utility, usefulness; that which is useful, expedient, or suitable.
   5. A reprieve or the offering of forgiveness from punishment or danger.
3. 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

4. Mirth, gladness; the feeling or emotion of being happy and joyful.
5. The quelling, curing, or expurgation of disease or sickness; medical recovery.
6. (rare) Recompense, amends or compensation; behaviour in return for one's wrongs.
7. (rare) An extra, augment, or addition; something to boot.
8. (rare) A medicinal or pharmaceutical cure or remedy; something used to quell disease.
9. (rare) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.

   Þey shulde..do bote to brugges þat to-broke were. — Pier's Plowman, 1400

• boteles
• boten
• botnen

• English: boot
• → English: bote (also from Old English bōt)
• Scots: bute, buit

Old French bote (Modern French botte), from Old French bot, bote, probably related to bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”); ultimately of Germanic origin, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”).

• (Northern) but, buyt, bute
• boot, bot, boote

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

bote (plural botes)

2. A boot or similar item of footwear; a shoe with a cover for part of the leg.
3. (rare) A cover for the leg.

• boten

• English: boot
  • → Scots: boot
• Scots: bute, buit

• “bọ̄te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-5.

bote

1. alternative form of bot (“boat”)

bote

1. alternative form of boten (“to resolve”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.te/

bōte

1. inflection of bōt:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular

Perhaps of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bautan (“to strike”).^[1]

bote oblique singular, f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

1. boot (specifically, a high-sided leather shoe that also covers the bottom of the leg)

• French: botte
• → Middle English: bote
  • English: boot
    • → Scots: boot
  • Scots: bute, buit
• → Old Czech: bot
  • Czech: bota
  • → Old Polish: bot, but
    • Polish: but, bot (Middle Polish), bót (obsolete or dialectal, Lubawa)
    • Silesian: bōt
• → Irish: buatais (from the plural botes)

Latin buttis.

bote oblique singular, f (oblique plural botes, nominative singular bote, nominative plural botes)

1. cask; barrel

See bat.

bote oblique singular, m (oblique plural botes, nominative singular botes, nominative plural bote)

1. alternative form of bat

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bote, supplement)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɔtɨ
• Homophone: bot

From Old French bot, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt.

bote m (plural botes)

1. rowing boat (boat propelled only by oars)
2. (by extension) any small boat

   Synonym: barquinho

Deverbal from botar (“to put; to lay”).

bote m (plural botes)

1. (biology) an animal's sudden thrust forward towards its prey
2. (figurative) a sudden attack
3. (Brazil, soccer) a goalkeeper's jump to catch the ball

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bote

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

• “bote”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “bote”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈbo.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: bo‧te

Borrowed from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).

bote m (plural botes)

1. boat, dinghy

   Synonym: barco

2. vessel, can, canister, container, jar, tin

   Synonym: recipiente

3. jackpot, pot, pool (large cash prize)

   Synonym: gordo

4. (Mexico) jail

   Synonyms: cárcel, prisión, chucho (Chile)

• → Cebuano: bote

bote m (plural botes)

1. bounce

bote

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

• “bote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbote/ [ˈboː.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ote
• Syllabification: bo‧te

Clipping of botelya, from Spanish botella, from French bouteille, from Late Latin butticula. See also botiha.

bote (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒ)

1. bottle

   Synonym: (dated) botelya

Borrowed from Spanish bote, from Middle English bot, from Old English bāt (“boat”).

bote (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜆᜒ)

1. lifeboat
2. speedboat

• “bote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

bote

1. plural of bota

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

bote

1. bottle