botín
See also: botin
Spanish
Etymology
First attested in 1495; from Occitan or Old Occitan botin[1][2], from Vulgar Latin *botinus, possibly borrowed from Gaulish boudi (“victory, advantage, profit”), from Proto-Celtic *boudi. Cognate with Catalan botí, Old French butin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /boˈtin/ [boˈt̪ĩn]
- Rhymes: -in
- Syllabification: bo‧tín
Noun
botín m (plural botines)
- booty, loot, haul
- Synonym: presa
- swag
Related terms
- botiquín
References
- Coromines, Joan (1961), “botín”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105
- “botín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
- “botín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014