different between hote vs dote

English

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English h?tan (“to command, be called”), from Proto-Germanic *haitan? (“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key- (“put in motion, be moving”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete (“to be named”), Dutch heten (“to be named”), German Low German heten (“to be called, be named”), German heißen (“to be called”), Swedish heta (“to be called”). Related to hight, hest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.

2. (obsolete) To promise.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

• In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows:

• The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
• Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.

• The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Related terms

• behote

Anagrams

• Theo, Theo., etho-, theo, theo-

Middle English

Noun

hote

1. Alternative form of ote

English

Alternative forms

• doat (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?t
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

1. (intransitive, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

   Synonyms: adore, love

2. (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.

   • Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.

   • , "Ill-disposed Affections […] "

     He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.

Derived terms

• (be foolishly fond of): dote over
• (act in a foolish manner): dotard, dotterel
• dotage

Translations

Noun

dote (plural dotes)

1. (Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
2. (obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (dotard): dobby, mimmerkin; see also Thesaurus:dotard

Translations

Anagrams

• tode, toed

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?t/

Verb

dote

1. first-person singular present indicative of doter
2. third-person singular present indicative of doter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doter
5. second-person singular imperative of doter

Italian

Etymology

From Latin d?s, dotem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.te/

Noun

dote f (plural doti)

1. (law) dowry, dower
2. gift (2), talent (3)

Latin

Noun

d?te

1. ablative singular of d?s

References

• dote in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from doten.

Alternative forms

• doote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??t(?)/

Noun

dote

1. An idiot or imbecile; a dotard.
2. A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.

Descendants

• English: dote

References

• “d?te, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Etymology 2

Verb

dote

1. Alternative form of doten

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin dos

Noun

dote m (plural dotes)

1. foundation (legacy constituting a permanent fund of a charity)
2. dowry (property or payment given at time of marriage)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d?s (genitive singular d?tis). Doublet of dosis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dote/, [?d?o.t?e]
• Rhymes: -ote

Noun

dote f (plural dotes)

1. dowry
2. talent

Related terms

• dotado

Verb

dote

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

Venetian

Noun

dote

1. plural of dota