different between souter vs douter

English

Etymology

From Old English s?tere, from Latin s?tor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).

Noun

souter (plural souters)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shoemaker or cobbler.

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

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

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 31:

     He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.

Anagrams

• Toures, ouster, outers, rouets, routes, touser, trouse

English

Etymology

dout (“to put out”) +? -er.

Noun

douter (plural douters)

1. (obsolete) An extinguisher for candles.

Anagrams

• Drouet, detour, redout, routed, toured

French

Alternative forms

• doubter (obsolete)
• doûter (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dubit?re, present active infinitive of dubit?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.te/

Verb

douter

1. (followed by the preposition de) to doubt

2. (reflexive) to suspect, to have an inkling

Conjugation

Usage notes

Douter subordinates a subjunctive content clause when used affirmatively, but subordinates the indicative when used non-affirmatively.

Derived terms

• à n'en pas douter

Related terms

• doute
• douteux

Further reading

• “douter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• détour
• tordue

Middle French

Verb

douter

1. Alternative form of doubter

Old French

Verb

douter

1. Alternative form of doter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.