cote

cote

See also: Côté, Côte, Coté, Cote, coté, côte, côté, and cò'tə̀

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English cote, 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.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
Synonyms
Derived terms

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.

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. (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
    A dog cotes a hare.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.

Noun

cote f (plural cotes)

  1. call number
  2. ratings
    cote de popularitéapproval rating, popularity
    avoir la coteto be popular
  3. (architecture) dimension
  4. (finance, stock market) quote
  5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
  6. (finance) tax assessment
    Synonym: quote-part
  7. (analytic geometry) applicate, z-coordinate (the last of the three terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of Cartesian coordinates for a three-dimensional space)
    Coordinate terms: abscisse, ordonnée

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cote

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

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

    From Latin cōtem.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈko.te/
      • Rhymes: -ote
      • Hyphenation: có‧te
    • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.te/
      • Rhymes: -ɔte
      • Hyphenation: cò‧te

    Noun

    cote f (plural coti)

    1. sharpening stone
    2. hone

    Anagrams

    Latin

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    cōte

    1. ablative singular of cōs

    Middle English

    Etymology 1

      Borrowed from Old French cote,[1] cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

      Alternative forms

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ̝ːt(ə)/[2][3]

      Noun

      cote (plural cotes)

      1. A coat, especially if worn as an undergarment.
        1. A coat bearing somebody's heraldic symbols; a coat of arms.
      2. A coating or external layer.
      Descendants
      • English: coat
      • Scots: coat
      • Yola: cooat, coat
      References
      1. ^ cōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 June 2018.
      2. ^ Anderson, Peter M. (1987), “Index of Words used (with SED References)”, in A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects, London: Croon Helm, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:ME /ɔː/ (< eME /o/) [] (over)coat VI.4.5/6
      3. ^ Wright, Joseph (1892), “Chapter IV. The French Element — The Vowels.”, in A grammar of the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Dialect Society Series C; 67)‎[1], London: for the English Dialect Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., →OCLC, § 219, page 63.

      Etymology 2

      Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

      Alternative forms

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/
      • IPA(key): /kyːt/ (Northern)

      Noun

      cote (plural cootes)

      1. coot (Fulica atra)
      2. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
      Descendants
      References

      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 English

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈko.te/

      Noun

      cote

      1. dative singular of cot

      Old French

      Noun

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

      1. alternative form of cotte

      Old Irish

      Alternative forms

      Etymology

      Univerbation of co (how) +‎ de (from it).[2]

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈko.d̠ʲe/

      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. 12c36
          Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?
          What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?

      Descendants

      Mutation

      Mutation of cote
      radical lenition nasalization
      cote chote cote
      pronounced with /ɡ-/

      Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
      All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

      References

      1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
      2. 2.0 2.1 E. G. Quin (1966), “Irish cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150:The only known Irish form which behaves in this way is the third singular non-feminine form of the preposition di, and I suggest that in fact cote is a phrase co de.

      Further reading

      Portuguese

      Verb

      cote

      1. inflection of cotar:
        1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
        2. third-person singular imperative