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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese boto (“boto”), of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??t??/

Noun

boto (plural botos)

1. Inia geoffrensis, a species of freshwater dolphin endemic to the Amazon river system

See also

• boto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inia geoffrensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• BOOT, Boot, OOTB, boot

Catalan

Verb

boto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of botre

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Spanish voto.

Noun

boto

1. vote

Verb

boto

1. to vote

Etymology 2

Noun

boto

1. Misspelling of buto.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English boot, French botte.

Pronunciation

Noun

boto (accusative singular boton, plural botoj, accusative plural botojn)

1. boot

Fijian

Noun

boto

1. frog

Galician

Etymology 1

Either onomatopoeic, or from the same Germanic origin as Gothic ???????????????????? (bauþs). Compare Dutch bot (“blunt, dull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boto?/

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus)

   Synonym: arroaz boto

Adjective

boto m (feminine singular bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. blunt, dull

Etymology 2

From bota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?to?/

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. wineskin, waterskin

References

• “boto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “boto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “boto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “boto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

b?t?

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Hawaiian Creole

Etymology

From Ilocano boto (“penis”).

Noun

boto

1. penis, male genital

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto boto, English boot, French botte, Russian ???????? (botínok), Spanish bota.

Noun

boto (plural boti)

1. boot

Derived terms

• boteto (“short boot, half-boot; shoe”)
• botizar (“to put boots on, boot”)

Javanese

Noun

boto

1. Nonstandard spelling of bata.

Old High German

Etymology

Cognate to Old High German biotan (“to offer, send, command”).

Noun

boto m

1. messenger, envoy

Descendants

• German: Bote

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch boot and Portuguese bote and Spanish bote

Noun

boto

1. boat, ship, vessel

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Nouns and adjective:

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?bo.tu/

Verb:

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?b?.tu/

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• bôto (obsolete)

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. boto (Inia geoffrensis, a freshwater dolphin of the Amazon)

   Synonym: tucuxi

2. (loosely) any dolphin, especially a freshwater one

   Synonyms: delfim, golfinho

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Alternative forms

• bôto (obsolete)

Adjective

boto m (feminine singular bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas, comparable)

1. dull (lacking a sharp edge or point)

   Synonyms: cego, embotado, rombo

2. dull; slow (unable to think quickly)

   Synonyms: devagar, embotado, lento

Etymology 3

From Konkani [script needed] (bhat), from Sanskrit ???? (bha??a).

Alternative forms

• bôto (obsolete)

Noun

boto m (plural botos)

1. (Hinduism) Bhat (Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas)

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

boto

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of botar

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish [Term?], from Gothic ???????????????????? (bauþs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?boto/, [?bo.t?o]

Adjective

boto (feminine bota, masculine plural botos, feminine plural botas)

1. blunt

Verb

boto

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of botar.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English boat or Dutch boot

Noun

boto

1. boat

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish voto.

Noun

bóto

1. vote
2. vow

Derived terms

Related terms

Venetian

Noun

boto m (plural boti)

1. explosion, bang
2. thud, thump
3. toll (of a bell)

English

Alternative forms

• bot

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Middle English b?te (“advantage, benefit, profit; relief, salvation; atonement, amends, expiation; cure”), from Old English b?t (“help, relief, advantage, remedy; compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance”), from Proto-Germanic *b?t? (“recompense”). Doublet of boot (inherited from the same Middle English word).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bo?t/

Noun

bote (plural botes) (law, historical)

1. The 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.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

• estovers

Derived terms

References

• bote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Middle English Dictionary

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??.t?/

Noun

bote

1. plural of boot

Bikol Central

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.t?/

Noun

bote

1. bottle

Cebuano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bo?te

Noun

bote

1. a lifeboat

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?^[1], Payap University, page 48

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English b?t, from Proto-Germanic *b?t?.

Alternative forms

• boot, bot, boote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?t/

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 themself 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 b?t)
• Scots: bute, buit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French bote (Modern French botte); ultimately of Germanic origin.

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?t/

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

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

Etymology 3

From Old English b?t.

Noun

bote

1. Alternative form of bot (“boat”)

Etymology 4

From Old English b?tian.

Verb

bote

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

Old French

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bote 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)

Descendants

• ? English: boot
• French: botte

Etymology 2

Latin buttis.

Noun

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

1. cask; barrel

Etymology 3

See bat.

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of bat

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?b?.te/
• Homophone: bot

Etymology 1

From Old French bot, from Middle English bot, from Old English b?t.

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

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

   Synonym: barquinho

Etymology 2

From botar (“to put; to lay”).

Noun

bote m (plural botes)

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

Derived terms

• errar o bote

Verb

bote

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of botar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of botar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of botar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of botar

Spanish

Etymology

From Middle English bot, from Old English b?t (“boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bote/, [?bo.t?e]
• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• a bote pronto
• bote salvavidas
• chupar del bote
• darse el bote
• de bote
• de bote y voleo
• de bote en bote
• en el bote
• bote de remos (“rowboat”)
• bote de premios (“prize pool”)

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: bote

Verb

bote

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of botar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of botar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of botar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of botar.

Tagalog

Etymology

Clipping of botelya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo.t?/

Noun

bote

1. bottle

Synonyms

• botelya (dated)

Venetian

Noun

bote

1. plural of bota

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Noun

bote

1. bottle