different between yote vs dote

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ??otan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutan? (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

yote (third-person singular simple present yotes, present participle yoting, simple past and past participle yoted)

1. (Britain dialectal) To pour water on; pour in.
2. (archaic or dialectal) To steep.

   My fowls, which well enough / I, as before, found feeding at their trough / Their yoted wheat. — Chapman.

Related terms

• ingot

Etymology 2

From coyote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??t/, /?j??ti/
• Rhymes: -??t, -??ti

Noun

yote (plural yotes)

1. Abbreviation of coyote.

Anagrams

• Toye, eyot, toey

Swahili

Adjective

yote

1. Mi class inflected form of -ote.
2. Ma class inflected form of -ote.
3. N class inflected form of -ote (singular only).

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