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cote

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

English

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Etymology 1

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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

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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.
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Etymology 2

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See quote.

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

  1. Obsolete form of quote.

Etymology 3

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Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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French

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Etymology 1

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

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cote f (plural cotes)

  1. call number
  2. ratings
    cote de popularité ― approval rating, popularity
    avoir la cote ― 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

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cote

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

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin cōtem.

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

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cote f (plural coti)

  1. sharpening stone
  2. hone

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Latin

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Noun

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cōte

  1. ablative singular of cōs

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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cote (plural cotes)

  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.
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  • English: coat
  • Scots: coat
  • Yola: cooat, coat
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Etymology 2

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Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

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cote (plural cootes)

  2. coot (Fulica atra)
  3. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
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Norwegian Bokmål

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cote m

  1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Norwegian Nynorsk

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cote m

  1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

Old English

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cote

  1. dative singular of cot

Old French

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Noun

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

  1. Alternative form of cotte

Old Irish

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Etymology

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

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Particle

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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.)?

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Mutation

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Mutation of cote
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.

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  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.”

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Verb

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cote

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