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4-letter words (2 found)

DOTE,TOED,

3-letter words (6 found)

DOE,DOT,ODE,TED,TOD,TOE,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,DO,ED,ET,OD,OE,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 17 words from dote according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of dote

dote odte dtoe tdoe otde tode doet odet deot edot oedt eodt dteo tdeo deto edto tedo etdo oted toed oetd eotd teod etod

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Definitions and meaning of dote

dote

Alternative forms

  • doat (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dōt
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dəʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

  1. (intransitive, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
    Synonyms: adore, love
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.

Derived terms

  • (be foolishly fond of): dote over
  • (act in a foolish manner): dotard, dotterel
  • dotage

Translations

Noun

dote (plural dotes)

  1. (Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
  2. (obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.

Synonyms

  • (dotard): dobby, mimmerkin; see also Thesaurus:dotard

Translations

Anagrams

  • tode, toed

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔt/

Verb

dote

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dotem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɔte
  • Hyphenation: dò‧te

Noun

dote f (plural doti)

  1. dowry, dower
  2. gift, talent

Related terms

  • dotale

Latin

Noun

dōte

  1. ablative singular of dōs

References

  • dote in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology 1

A back-formation from doten.

Alternative forms

  • doote

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔːt(ə)/

Noun

dote

  1. An idiot or imbecile; a dotard.
  2. A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.
Descendants
  • English: dote
References
  • “dōte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

Etymology 2

Verb

dote

  1. Alternative form of doten

Old Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dōs, dōtem, from Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis (“act of giving”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdote/

Noun

dote m or f

  1. dowry
    Synonyms: arra, arrás

Descendants

  • Spanish: dote

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin dos.

Pronunciation

Noun

dote m (plural dotes)

  1. foundation (legacy constituting a permanent fund of a charity)
  2. dowry (property or payment given at time of marriage)
  3. (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) talent
Related terms
  • dotal
  • dotado

Etymology 2

Verb

dote

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdote/ [ˈd̪o.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: do‧te

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish dote (“dowry”, masculine or feminine noun), borrowed from Latin dōtem. Doublet of dosis.

Noun

dote f (plural dotes)

  1. dowry
  2. talent
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dote

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

Further reading

  • “dote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dote, from Latin dōs.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: do‧te
  • IPA(key): /ˈdote/, [ˈdo.tɛ]

Noun

dote (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜒ)

  1. dowry
    Synonyms: bigay-kaya, pasalap, ubad, (dialectal) bilang

Derived terms

References

  • “dote”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Venetian

Noun

dote

  1. plural of dota

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