cote
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /koʊt/
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)
- A cottage or hut.
- A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
Synonyms
Etymology 2
See quote.
Verb
cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
- (obsolete) To 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.
Verb
cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
- To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
- A dog cotes a hare.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
- (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare
- We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
- 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
- [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔt/
Etymology 1
From Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus
Noun
cote f (plural cotes)
- call number
- ratings, popularity, approval rating (of a politician)
- (architecture) dimension
- (finance, stock market) quote
- (horse racing, gambling) odds
- (finance) tax assessment
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Synonyms
- (tax assessment): quote-part
Etymology 2
Inflected forms
Italian
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/
Noun
cote (plural cotes)
- A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
- A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
- A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.
Related terms
References
- “cōte (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/
References
- “cọ̄te (n.(4))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.