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English

Alternative forms

• gout

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gut? (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ??otan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Noun

gote (plural gotes)

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
2. (Britain dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A deep miry place.

Related terms

• gotch
• ingot

Anagrams

• EGOT, toge

Dutch

Verb

gote

1. (archaic) singular past subjunctive of gieten

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Noun

gote f (plural gutis)

1. drop

Italian

Noun

gote f

1. plural of gota

Adjective

gote

1. feminine plural of goto

Middle English

Noun

gote

1. Alternative form of goot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²?o?t?/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: gåte

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata f, from Proto-Germanic *gatw? (“street, passage”). Doublet of gate. Akin to Faroese gøta.

Alternative forms

• gutu
• gota (non-standard since 2012)
• gòtu (Midlandsnormalen)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

2. a path, trail
4. a passage with a fence or gate on either side

   Synonyms: geil, allé

Etymology 2

A kind of blend of gote f (“path”) and gatt n (“hole”), and gjot. The verb is derived from the noun.

Alternative forms

• (verb): gota (a- and split infinitives)

Noun

gote f (definite singular gota, indefinite plural goter, definite plural gotene)

1. a hole

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive) to make a hole (in)

Etymology 3

From the noun got n (“spawn”).

Alternative forms

• gota (a- and split infinitives)

Verb

gote (present tense gotar, past tense gota, past participle gota, passive infinitive gotast, present participle gotande, imperative got)

1. (transitive, zoology) to spawn

   Synonym: gyte

Etymology 4

From Old Norse goti, from Proto-Germanic *gutô.

Noun

gote m (definite singular goten, indefinite plural gotar, definite plural gotane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by gotar

References

• “gote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• toge

Old French

Alternative forms

• goute
• goutte (chiefly late Old French)
• gute

Etymology

From Latin gutta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.t?/

Noun

gote f (oblique plural gotes, nominative singular gote, nominative plural gotes)

1. drop (of liquid)

Related terms

• gotiere

Descendants

• English: gout, goutte
• Middle French: goutte
  • French: goutte
• Norman: goute

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: gôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: g?r, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“dirt, dung, filth, muck”), from Proto-Germanic *gur? (“half-digested stomach contents; feces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *g??er- (“hot; warm”).

Noun

gore (uncountable)

2. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
3. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
4. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.

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Derived terms

• gory

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English goren, from gore (“gore”), ultimately from Old English g?r (“spear”), itself from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz. Related to gar and gore (“a projecting point”).

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn.

   The bull gored the matador.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English g?ra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Noun

gore (plural gores)

1. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.

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2. (surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
3. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe
4. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.^Wp

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

5. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
6. A projecting point.
7. (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

Translations

Verb

gore (third-person singular simple present gores, present participle goring, simple past and past participle gored)

1. To cut in a triangular form.
2. To provide with a gore.

   to gore an apron

Anagrams

• Geor., Gero, Ogre, Rego, ergo, ergo-, gero-, goer, ogre, orge, rego, roge

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

gore

1. Inflected form of goor

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English g?ra, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.

Alternative forms

• gare, goore, gour, gower

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r(?)/

Noun

gore (plural gores or goren)

2. A triangle-shaped plot of land; a gore.
3. A triangle-shaped piece or patch of fabric.
4. A piece of clothing (especially a loose-fitting one, such as a coat or dress)
5. (rare) A piece of armour; a mail coat.
6. (rare) A triangle-shaped piece of armor.

Descendants

• English: gore
• Scots: gair

References

• “g?re, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old English gor, from Proto-Germanic *gur?.

Alternative forms

• gorre, gor

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????r/

Noun

gore (uncountable)

2. Muck, filth, dirt; that which causes dirtiness
3. (figuratively) Iniquity, sinfulness.
4. (rare) A despicable individual.

Descendants

• English: gore
• Scots: goor, gure

References

• “g?re, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-26.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Old English g?r.

Noun

gore

1. Alternative form of gare

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ?????? (jôrâb).

Noun

gore ?

1. sock
2. stocking

Portuguese

Verb

gore

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of gorar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of gorar
3. third-person singular imperative of gorar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gora; compare gora (hill).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ôre/
• Hyphenation: go?re

Adverb

g?re (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. up, above

Antonyms

• dolje/dole

Noun

g?re f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. genitive singular of gora
2. nominative plural of gora
3. accusative singular of gora
4. vocative singular of gora

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ôre?/
• Hyphenation: go?re

Adverb

g?r? (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. worse

Shona

Etymology 1

Borrowed from a Khoe language; compare Khoekhoe kurib.

Noun

goré 5 (plural makoré 6)

1. year

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

goré 5 (plural makoré 6)

1. cloud