cote

See also: Cote, coté, côte, côté, and Côte

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkot/

Etymology 1

From the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”). 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.
    • Milton
      Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.
Synonyms

Etymology 2

See quote.

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

  1. (obsolete) To quote.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Udall to this entry?)

Etymology 3

Probably related to French côté (“side”).

Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

  1. 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?)
    • 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

French

Verb

cote

  1. first-person singular present indicative of coter
  2. third-person singular present indicative of coter
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of coter
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of coter
  5. second-person singular imperative of coter

Noun

cote f (plural cotes)

  1. call number

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōtem, accusative of cōs.

Noun

cote f (plural coti)

  1. sharpening stone
  2. hone

Latin

Noun

cōte

  1. ablative singular of cōs

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/

Noun

cote (plural cotes)

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

Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/

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 French

Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of cotte

Portuguese

Verb

cote

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of cotar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of cotar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of cotar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of cotar
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