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Definitions and meaning of cote
cote
Pronunciation
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊt/
(General American) IPA(key): /koʊt/
Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt
Homophone: coat
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishcote, from the Old Englishcote, the feminine form of cot(“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutchkot.
Noun
cote (pluralcotes)
A cottage or hut.
A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
Synonyms
shed
Related terms
bellcote
dovecote
sheepcote
Etymology 2
See quote.
Verb
cote (third-person singular simple presentcotes, present participlecoting, simple past and past participlecoted)
Obsolete form of quote.
Etymology 3
Probably related to Frenchcôté(“side”) via Middle Frenchcosté.
Verb
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.
1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
[...]strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.
Anagrams
Ceto, OTEC, ecto-
French
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kɔt/
Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle Frenchquote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latinquota, from Latinquotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.
Noun
cotef (pluralcotes)
call number
ratings
cote de popularité ― approval rating, popularity
avoir la cote ― 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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
From Old Frenchcote, cotte, from Latincotta, from Proto-Germanic*kuttô.
Alternative forms
coete, coot, coote, coyt, koote, kote
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/
Noun
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.
Related terms
cote armure
surcote
Descendants
English: coat
Scots: coat
Yola: cooat, coat
References
“cōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Etymology 2
Unknown; probably related to Dutchkoet.
Alternative forms
coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/
Noun
cote (pluralcootes)
coot (Fulica atra)
seagull (bird of the family Laridae)
Descendants
English: coot
Scots: cuit
References
“cọ̄te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
cotem
definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
cotem
definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)
Old French
Noun
coteoblique singular, f (oblique pluralcotes, nominative singularcote, nominative pluralcotes)
Alternative form of cotte
Old Irish
Alternative forms
cate, catte
Etymology
co(“what, how”) + de(“from it”)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkodʲe/
Particle
cote
of what sort is…?
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
Descendants
Irish: goidé, cad é, cad
Scottish Gaelic: ciod e, dè, ciod
Mutation
Further reading
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 462, 466
E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150