different between sty vs cote

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English sty, from Old English st?, sti? (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *stij?. Cognate with German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.
2. (figuratively) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

Synonyms

• (enclosure for swine): pigpen, pigsty
• (messy or dirty place): hovel, pigsty

Translations

Verb

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. To place in, or as if in, a sty
2. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place

Etymology 2

From Middle English stien, sti?en, from Old English st??an (“to go; ascend, mount”), from Proto-Germanic *st?gan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steyg?-. Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.

Alternative forms

• stee, stie, stigh, stye

Verb

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].

   • From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.

   • 1621, Richard Montague, Diatribae upon the first part of the late History of Tithes

     Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.

   • 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice

     That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.

Derived terms

• styan
• stirrup

Related terms

• stile

Translations

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A ladder.

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably a back-formation from styany, mistaken for "sty-on-eye" but correctly from Middle English styany, composed of styan ("sty"; from Old English st??ende, present participle of st?gan (“to rise”)) + y (“eye”).

Alternative forms

• stye

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. (medicine) An inflammation of the eyelid.

Translations

Anagrams

• YTS

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sti?, st?, from Proto-Germanic *stij?.

Alternative forms

• stye, sty?e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?/

Noun

sty (plural styes)

2. A pigsty (pen or set of pens for pigs)
3. (rare) Any other crude dwelling or abode.

Descendants

• English: sty

References

• “st?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

Etymology 2

From Old English st??, from Proto-Germanic *st?g?.

Alternative forms

• sti, stie, stye, stiyhe, sti?e, sti?he

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?/

Noun

sty (plural styes or sti?en)

2. A path, track or street.
3. (figuratively) One's chosen pathway or choices in life.
4. (figuratively, rare) A short narrative.

References

• “st?(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

1. A cottage or hut.
2. A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.

Synonyms

• shed

Related terms

• dovecote
• sheepcote

Etymology 2

See quote.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. Obsolete form of quote.

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

Etymology 3

Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
   • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:

     [...]strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.

Anagrams

• Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus

Noun

cote f (plural cotes)

1. call number
2. ratings, popularity, approval rating (of a politician)
3. (architecture) dimension
4. (finance, stock market) quote
5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
6. (finance) tax assessment

Synonyms

• (tax assessment): quote-part

Derived terms

• avoir la cote

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cote

1. inflection of coter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From Latin c?tem, accusative of c?s.

Noun

cote f (plural coti)

1. sharpening stone
2. hone

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.te/, [?ko?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.te/, [?k??t??]

Noun

c?te

1. ablative singular of c?s

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Alternative forms

• coote, coete, coyt, kote, coot, koote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??t(?)/

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

2. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
3. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
4. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

Related terms

• cote armure

Descendants

• English: coat
• Scots: coat

References

• “c?te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

Alternative forms

• coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?t(?)/

Noun

cote (plural cootes)

2. coot (Fulica atra)
3. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)

Descendants

• English: coot
• Scots: cuit

References

• “c??te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Old French

Noun

cote f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)

1. Alternative form of cotte

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cate, catte

Etymology

co (“how”) +? de (“from it”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kod?e/

Particle

cote

1. of what sort is…?
2. what is…?
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^c36

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, ?ISBN, §§ 462, 466

Portuguese

Verb

cote

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