# botte
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔtə/
* Hyphenation: bot‧te
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔtə

### Adjective

botte
* inflection of bot:
** indefinite plural
** definite

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔt
* Homophones: bot, bote, botes, bots, bottes

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French bote, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz. 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

* botter (“to boot”)
* botterie (“boot shop”)
* 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

##### Derived terms

* proposer la botte

### 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. Cognate with Sicilian vutti.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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: /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”)