FromMiddle Englishcote, from theOld Englishcote, the feminine form ofcot(“small house”);doublet ofcot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related tocottage. Cognate toDutchkot.
cote (pluralcotes)
- Acottage orhut.
- A smallstructure built to containdomesticatedanimals such assheep,pigs orpigeons.
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.
Seequote.
cote (third-person singular simple presentcotes,present participlecoting,simple past and past participlecoted)
- Obsolete form ofquote.
Probably related toFrenchcôté(“side”) viaMiddle Frenchcosté.
cote (third-person singular simple presentcotes,present participlecoting,simple past and past participlecoted)
- (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
A dogcotes a 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]:Wecoted 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 tocote an antelope.
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchquote,quotte, borrowed fromLate Latinquota, fromLatinquotus.Doublet ofquota, an unadapted borrowing.
cote f (pluralcotes)
- call number
- ratings
- cote de popularité ―approval rating,popularity
- avoir lacote ―to be popular
- (architecture)dimension
- (finance, stock market)quote
- (horse racing, gambling)odds
- (finance)tax assessment
- Synonym:quote-part
- (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
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
cote
- inflection ofcoter:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
FromLatincōtem.
cote f (pluralcoti)
- sharpeningstone
- hone
cōte
- ablativesingular ofcōs
FromOld Frenchcote,cotte, fromLatincotta, fromProto-Germanic*kuttô.
cote (pluralcotes)
- A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
- A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
- A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.
Unknown; probably related toDutchkoet.
cote (pluralcootes)
- coot(Fulica atra)
- seagull(bird of the familyLaridae)
cote m
- definitesingular ofrev (Etymology 1)
cote m
- definitesingular ofrev (Etymology 1)
cote
- dativesingular ofcot
coteoblique singular, f (oblique pluralcotes,nominative singularcote,nominative pluralcotes)
- Alternative form ofcotte
Univerbation ofco(“how”) +de(“from it”).[2]
cote
- of what sort is…?
- 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.12c36
Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?- What do I profit youpl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak(subj.)?
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.
- ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ↑2.02.1E. G. Quin (1966) “Irishcote”, inÉriu, volume20, Royal Irish Academy,→JSTOR, pages140–150: “The only known Irish form which behaves in this way is the third singular non-feminine form of the prepositiondi, and I suggest that in factcote is a phraseco de.”
cote
- inflection ofcotar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
