FromSpanishbotín.
botín m (pluralbotíns)
- booty,loot
1895, A. López Ferreiro,A tecedeira de Bonaval, page198:[…] por canto o reino de Galicia contribuíra con 40.000 ducados para o equipo d'armada, e por canto obotín que se collera nos barcos franceses acababa de ser arrebatado dos portos gallegos, procedía que se lles restituíse.- […] since the Kingdom of Galicia contributed with 40,000 ducats for provisions of the army, and since thebooty taken from the French ships had just been snatched from the Galician harbours, it was proceeding to restitute it
- IPA(key): /boˈtin/[boˈt̪ĩn]
- Rhymes:-in
- Syllabification:bo‧tín
First attested in 1495; fromOccitan orOld Occitanbotin,[1][2] fromVulgar Latin*botinus, possibly borrowed fromGaulishboudi(“victory, advantage, profit”), fromProto-Celtic*boudi. Cognate withCatalanbotí,Old Frenchbutin.
botín m (pluralbotines)
- booty,loot,haul
- Synonym:presa
- swag
Frombota +-ín.
botín m (pluralbotines)
- boot
- ^Coromines, Joan (1961), “botín”, inBreve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page105
- ^“botín”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
