cote

See also:Côté,Côte,Coté,Cote,coté,côte,andcôté

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/kəʊt/

  • Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/koʊt/
• Rhymes:-əʊt,-oʊt
• Homophone:coat

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishcote,from theOld Englishcote,the feminine form ofcot(“small house”);doubletofcot(in the sense of “cottage” ) and more distantly related tocottage.Cognate toDutchkot.

Noun

cote(pluralcotes)

1. Acottageorhut.
2. A smallstructurebuilt to containdomesticatedanimalssuch assheep,pigsorpigeons.
   • 1667,John Milton,“Book IV”, inParadise Lost.[…],London:[…][Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC;republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…],London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:

     Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdledcotes.

Synonyms

• shed

Derived terms

• bellcote
• dovecote
• hogcote
• sheepcote
• swinecote

Etymology 2

Seequote.

Verb

cote(third-person singular simple presentcotes,present participlecoting,simple past and past participlecoted)

1. Obsoleteform ofquote.

Etymology 3

Probably related toFrenchcôté(“side”)viaMiddle Frenchcosté.

Verb

cote(third-person singular simple presentcotes,present participlecoting,simple past and past participlecoted)

1. (obsolete)To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.

   A dogcotesa hare.

   • c.1599–1602(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii]:

     Wecotedthem 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 tocotean antelope.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ceto,OTEC,ecto-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kɔt/

Etymology 1

InheritedfromMiddle Frenchquote,quotte,borrowed fromLate Latinquota,fromLatinquotus.Doubletofquota,an unadapted borrowing.

Noun

cotef(pluralcotes)

1. call number
2. ratings

   cotede popularité―approval rating,popularity

   avoir lacote―to 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 correspondinglemmaform.

Verb

cote

1. inflection ofcoter:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. second-personsingularimperative

Further reading

• “cote”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Italian

Etymology

FromLatincōtem.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cotef(pluralcoti)

1. sharpeningstone
2. hone

Anagrams

• Ceto,Toce,ceto,ecto-,teco

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈkoː.te/,[ˈkoːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈko.te/,[ˈkɔːt̪e]

Noun

cōte

1. ablativesingularofcōs

Middle English

Etymology 1

FromOld Frenchcote,cotte,fromLatincotta,fromProto-Germanic*kuttô.

Alternative forms

• coete,coot,coote,coyt,koote,kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈkɔːt(ə)/

Noun

cote(pluralcotes)

2. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
3. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
4. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

Related terms

• cote armure
• surcote

Descendants

• English:coat
• Scots:coat
• Yola:cooat,coat

References

• “cōte,n.(2).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-06-17.

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related toDutchkoet.

Alternative forms

• coote,koote,kuytt,cute,kote

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈkoːt(ə)/

Noun

cote(pluralcootes)

2. coot(Fulica atra)
3. seagull(bird of the familyLaridae)

Descendants

• English:coot
• Scots:cuit

References

• “cọ̄te,n.(4).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-06-17.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

cotem

1. definitesingularofrev(Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cotem

1. definitesingularofrev(Etymology 1)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈko.te/

Noun

cote

1. dativesingularofcot

Old French

Noun

coteoblique singular,f(oblique pluralcotes,nominative singularcote,nominative pluralcotes)

1. Alternative form ofcotte

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cate,catte
• (possibly feminine)cati,caiti

Etymology

Univerbationofco(“how”)+‎de(“from it”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈkodʲe/

Particle

cote

1. of what sort is…?
2. what is…?
   • c.800,Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus(reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.12^c36

     Cotemo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?

     What do I profit youpl(lit. ‘what ismy profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak(subj.)?

Descendants

• Irish:goidé,cad é,cad
• Scottish Gaelic:ciod e,dè,ciod

Mutation

Mutation ofcote

radical	lenition	nasalization
cote	chote	cote pronounced with/ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf(1940)D. A. BinchyandOsborn Bergin,transl.,A Grammar of Old Irish,Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,→ISBN,§§ 462, 466;reprinted2017

Portuguese

Verb

cote

1. inflection ofcotar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative