bote

See also: Bote, boté, bóte, böte, and botë

English

Alternative forms

• bot

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Noun

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

1. Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.

   Synonyms: recompense, remuneration, restitution; see also Thesaurus:compensation

2. A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
3. 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

• estovers

Derived terms

• boteless
• burghbote
• cartbote
• firebote
• frithbote
• haybote
• hedgebote
• housebote
• maegbote
• manbote
• plowbote, ploughbote
• theftbote
• wainbote

References

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

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊə.tə/

Noun

bote

1. plural of boot

Albanian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of bote

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bote	botja	bote	botet
accusative		boten
dative	bote	botes	boteve	boteve
ablative			botesh

Noun

bote

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of botë

Further reading

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 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

Bikol Central

Etymology

Clipping of botelya.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bóte

1. bottle

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bote

1. a lifeboat

Galician

Verb

bote

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

Khumi Chin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo˥.te˧/

Verb

bote

1. to hit, beat

References

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

Noun

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

Related terms

• boteles
• boten
• botnen

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

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”).

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːt(ə)/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• boten

Descendants

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

References

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

Etymology 3

Noun

bote

1. alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 4

Verb

bote

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.te/

Noun

bōte

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