batel

Related to bati; from a derivative of Latin battuō, battuere, cf. Vulgar Latin *bataclum < *bat(t)uaculum. Compare French batail, Catalan batall, Italian battaglio. See also batecul.

batel m (plural batei)

1. clapper (on a bell)

• batecul

• batocj
• bati

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese batel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old French batel, from Old English bat.

• IPA^(key): /baˈtɛl/

batel m (plural bateis)

1. tender; rowboat
   • 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:

     batel para entrar et seyr et para dar carga et tomar carga en porto estando, tenpo non perdendo

     [a] boat for entering and exiting and for taking and delivering the cargo whilst at the harbour, not losing time

   Synonyms: chalupa, esquife

2. boat for crossing rivers

   Synonym: barca

Borrowing from Old French batail. Doublet of badalo.

• IPA^(key): /baˈtɛl/

batel m (plural bateis)

1. clapper (on a bell)

   Synonym: badalo

• “batel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “batel” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “batel” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “batel” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “batel” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

batel

1. Alternative form of batayle

batel m (plural bateaulx)

1. boat (watercraft)

Old English bat, suffixed with -el.

batel m (oblique plural bateaus or bateax or batiaus or batiax or batels, nominative singular bateaus or bateax or batiaus or batiax or batels, nominative plural batel)

1. boat (watercraft)

• nef (more common)

• Middle French: bateau
  • French: bateau
    • Haitian Creole: bato
    • English: bateau
• → Italian: battello
• Norman: baté
• → Occitan: batèl, batèu
• → Old Portuguese: batel
  • Galician: batel
  • Portuguese: batel, bote
• Spanish: batel, bote

From Old Portuguese batel, Old French batel (“boat”) (Modern French bateau), from Anglo-Norman bat, from Old English bāt (“boat”) (Modern English boat), from Proto-Germanic *baitaz (“boat, ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“to break, split”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈtɛɫ/
• Hyphenation: ba‧tel

batel m (plural batéis)

1. (nautical) (small) boat

• IPA^(key): /baˈtel/, [baˈt̪el]

batel m (plural bateles)

1. rowboat for four rowers and a cox