botte
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔtə/
- Hyphenation: bot‧te
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔtə
Adjective
botte
- inflection of bot:
- indefinite plural
- definite
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔt/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔt
- Homophones: bot, bote, botes, bots, bottes
Etymology 1
From Old French bote, from Frankish *butt. See English boot.
Noun
botte f (plural bottes)
- boot (footwear)
- something resembling a boot
- la botte italienne ― the Italian boot
- une botte à bière ― a boot-shaped beer glass
- (figuratively) oppression
- Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi. ― The Jews suffered greatly under the oppression of the Nazi regime.
- (polytechnic jargon) the top of the class in polytechnic school
Derived terms
- bien dans ses bottes
- botte secrète
- chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin
- en avoir plein les bottes
- lécher les bottes
Related terms
- botterie (“boot shop”)
- botter (“to boot”)
- bottier (“bootmaker”)
Verb
botte
- inflection of botter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (“bundle of flax; tuft”), akin to Middle Low German bōte (“bundle of flax”).
Noun
botte f (plural bottes)
- bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables)
- bundle, sheaf (of grain)
- bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay)
- (by extension) fodder or feed for small livestock
- a bundle of skeins
- bunch (large amount of something)
- (informal) sex, proposed to a woman by a man
- Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain ! ― I offered to have sex with her. No luck!
- bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg)
Derived terms
- botteler
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.
Noun
botte f (plural bottes)
- (fencing) thrust
Etymology 4
Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).
Noun
botte f (plural bottes)
- (nautical) ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)
- large barrel, cask
- (historical) a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds
- (historical) a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons
Further reading
- “botte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology 1
From Late Latin buttis probably of Ancient Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbot.te/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -otte
- Hyphenation: bót‧te
Noun
botte f (plural botti, diminutive botticèlla or (archaic) botticèllo m or botticìna or (less common) botticìno m)
- barrel
- Synonyms: barile, fusto, tinozza
- cask
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔt.te/
- Rhymes: -ɔtte
- Hyphenation: bòt‧te
Noun
botte f
- plural of botta
Norman
Etymology
From Old French bote, from Frankish *butt.
Noun
botte f (plural bottes)
- (Jersey) boot
Derived terms
- botte à cliou (“hobnail boot”)
- botter (“to boot”)
- hautes bottes (“Wellington boots”)