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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French coterie.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t??i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ko?t??i/, /?ko?t???i/, [?ko????i], [?ko?????i]

Noun

coterie (plural coteries)

1. A circle of people who associate with one another for a common purpose.

   Synonym: clique
2. A communal burrow of prairie dogs.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “coterie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “coterie”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French coterie, from Medieval Latin coteria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?.t??ri/
• Hyphenation: co?te?rie
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

coterie f (plural coteries or coterieën, diminutive coterietje n)

1. coterie, clique (exclusive circle of associates)

Related terms

• kot

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin coteria, from Old English cot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.t?i/
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

coterie f (plural coteries)

1. (historical) feudal community of peasants
2. (figuratively, also derogatory) coterie, clique, cabal (small, exclusive group of individuals advancing shared interests)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: coterie
• ? English: coterie
• ? German: Koterie

Further reading

• “coterie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• coterie on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Romanian

Etymology

From French coterie.

Noun

coterie f (plural coterii)

1. coterie

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English tribe, tribu, from Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?b/
• Rhymes: -a?b

Noun

tribe (plural tribes)

1. A socially, ethnically, or politically cohesive group of people.
2. (anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
3. (zoology) A group of apes who live and work together.
4. (taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
5. The collective noun for various animals.
6. (stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.

Derived terms

• tribal
• tribally
• tribelet

Translations

Verb

tribe (third-person singular simple present tribes, present participle tribing, simple past and past participle tribed)

1. (transitive) To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
   • 1696-1699, William Nicolson, English Historical Library

     Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed.

See also

• ethnic
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Anagrams

• Berti, Breit, Tiber, biter, rebit

Middle English

Alternative forms

• trybe, tribu

Etymology

From Old French tribu, from Latin tribus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tri?b(?)/, /?tri?bu/

Noun

tribe (plural tribus)

1. One of the twelve tribes of Israel.
2. (rare) Any tribe or kin group.
3. (rare) A league or grouping.

Descendants

• English: tribe

References

• “tr?be, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.