Borrowed fromSpanishbatel.

• IPA^(key):/batel/,[ba.t̪e̞l]

batel inan

1. smallboat,dinghy

   Synonym:txalupa

• “batel”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “batel”, inOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary],Euskaltzaindia,1987–2005

Related tobati; from a derivative ofLatinbattuō, battuere, cf.Vulgar Latin*bataclum <*bat(t)uaculum. CompareFrenchbatail,Catalanbatall,Italianbattaglio. See alsobatecul.

batel m (pluralbatei)

1. clapper (on a bell)

• batecul

• batocj
• bati

FromOld Galician-Portuguesebatel (13th century,Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed fromOld Frenchbatel, fromOld Englishbat.

• IPA^(key):/baˈtɛl/

batel m (pluralbateis)

1. tender;rowboat
   • 1433, A. Rodríguez González & J. Armas Castro (eds.),Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 32:

     batel para entrar et seyr et para dar carga et tomar carga en porto estando, tenpo non perdendo

     [a]boat for entering and exiting and for taking and delivering the cargo whilst at the harbour, not losing time

   Synonyms:chalupa,esquife

2. boat for crossing rivers

   Synonym:barca

Borrowing fromOld Frenchbatail.Doublet ofbadalo.

• IPA^(key):/baˈtɛl/

batel m (pluralbateis)

1. clapper (on a bell)

   Synonym:badalo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “batel”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “batel”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “batel”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “batel”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “batel”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

batel

1. Alternative form ofbatayle

FromOld Frenchbatel(“boat”).

batel m (pluralbateaulx)

1. boat (watercraft)

Old Englishbat +‎-el

bateloblique singular, m (oblique pluralbateausorbateaxorbatiausorbatiaxorbatels,nominative singularbateausorbateaxorbatiausorbatiaxorbatels,nominative pluralbatel)

1. boat (watercraft)

• nef(more common)

• Angevin:batiau
• Bourguignon:baiteâ
• Champenois:baté,batiau
• Franc-Comtois:baitiâ
• Middle French:bateau
• Norman:baté
• Picard:batieu,batiau
• Poitevin-Saintongeais:batea
• Walloon:batea
  • French:bateau
    • Haitian Creole:bato
    • English:bateau
• → Italian:battello
• → Occitan:batèl,batèu
• → Old Galician-Portuguese:batel
  • Galician:batel
  • Portuguese:batel,bote
• → Spanish:batel,bote

FromOld Galician-Portuguesebatel, fromOld Frenchbatel(“boat”) (ModernFrenchbateau).

• Rhymes:(Portugal)-ɛl,(Brazil)-ɛw
• Hyphenation:ba‧tel

batel m (pluralbatéis)

1. (nautical) (small)boat

Borrowed fromItalianbattello.

batel n (uncountable)

1. a smallship

• batel in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN

FromOld Frenchbatel(“boat”).

• IPA^(key):/baˈtel/[baˈt̪el]
• Rhymes:-el
• Syllabification:ba‧tel

batel m (pluralbateles)

1. rowboat for fourrowers and acox

• “batel”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10