botte

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See also: Botte, botté, and bøtte

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔtə/
  • Hyphenation: bot‧te
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔtə

Adjective

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botte

  1. inflection of bot:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. definite

French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French bote, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz. See English boot.

Noun

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botte f (plural bottes)

  1. boot (footwear)
  2. something resembling a boot
    la botte italiennethe Italian boot
    une botte à bièrea boot-shaped beer glass
  3. (figuratively) oppression
    Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi.The Jews suffered greatly under the oppression of the Nazi regime.
  4. (polytechnic jargon) the top of the class in polytechnic school
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Verb

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botte

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

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (bundle of flax; tuft), akin to Middle Low German bōte (bundle of flax).

Noun

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botte f (plural bottes)

  1. bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables)
  2. bundle, sheaf (of grain)
  3. bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay)
  4. (by extension) fodder or feed for small livestock
  5. a bundle of skeins
  6. bunch (large amount of something)
  7. (informal) sex, proposed to a woman by a man
    Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain !I offered to have sex with her. No luck!
  8. bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg)
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Etymology 3

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Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.

Noun

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botte f (plural bottes)

  1. (fencing) thrust
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Etymology 4

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Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (bottle).

Noun

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botte f (plural bottes)

  1. (nautical) ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)
  2. large barrel, cask
  3. (historical) a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds
  4. (historical) a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Late Latin buttis probably of Ancient Greek origin.

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Noun

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botte f (plural botti, diminutive botticèlla or (archaic) botticèllo m or botticìna or (less common) botticìno m)

  1. barrel
    Synonyms: barile, fusto, tinozza
  2. cask

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Noun

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botte f

  1. plural of botta

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French bote, from Frankish *butt.

Noun

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botte f (plural bottes)

  1. (Jersey) boot

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