# dote
## English
### Alternative forms

* doat (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* enPR: dōt
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dəʊt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊt

### Etymology 1

The verb is derived from Middle English doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).
The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from Middle English dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.

#### Verb

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)
* (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.
    Synonyms: adore, love
    Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
** 2010, Jennifer Egan, “A to B”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.
* (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections […] ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
** 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
* (intransitive, of trees, rare or obsolete) To rot, decay.

##### Derived terms

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

##### Translations
#### Noun

dote (countable and uncountable, plural dotes)
* (countable, Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.
* (countable, obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
** 1630, Tinker of Turvey:How did his death-bed make him a doate!
* (uncountable, rare) Decay in a tree.

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* dodipole
* dotary
* dotel
* dotery
* dotish
* doty

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English dote (“endowment”) (c. 1450), from Middle French dote (modern dot), from Latin dos.

#### Noun

dote (plural dotes)
* (obsolete) Dowry.

### Etymology 3

From Middle French doter, Latin dōtāre.

#### Verb

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)
* (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

### Anagrams

* tode, toed

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔt/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

dote
* inflection of doter:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin dotem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔ.te/
* Rhymes: -ɔte
* Hyphenation: dò‧te

### Noun

dote f (plural doti)
* dowry, dower
* gift, talent

#### Related terms

* dotale

## Latin
### Noun

dōte
* 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 of doten.

#### Alternative forms

* doote

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɔːt(ə)/

#### Noun

dote
* An idiot or imbecile; a dotard.
* 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
* 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: /ˈdote/

### Noun

dote m or f
* dowry
    Synonyms: arra, arrás
** ca. 1480, Ordenanzas reales de Castilla. Huete, Álvaro de Castro, 1484. BNM I1338, fol. 243r. , (ed. by Ivy A. Corfis, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):E sy fijos non ouiere que pierda todos sus bienes las dos partes para la nuestra camara & la otra terçia parte para acusador. E estos bienes que asy se perdieren se entiendan sacadas las debdas & sacado el dote & arras de su muger.And if he does not have issue (children), he shall lose all his possessions. Two thirds shall go to our chamber, and the third to the accuser [of blasphemy]. And by these possessions thus lost, his debts shall be considered solved, along with the dowry and downpayment of his wife.
** 1491, Alfonso X, Siete Partidas (BNM I 766) , (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto, 2004, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):Ley sesta. como la dote o el arra que resçibe el padre por su fijo o por su fija no deue venir a partiçion entre los otros hermanos.Law 6. How the dowry or downpayment that a father receives for [the marriage of] his son or daughter shall not be split among the other siblings.

#### Descendants

* Spanish: dote

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Latin dos.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɔ.t͡ʃi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɔ.t͡ʃi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɔ.te/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdɔ.tɨ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɔt͡ʃi, (Portugal) -ɔtɨ

#### Noun

dote m (plural dotes)
* foundation (legacy constituting a permanent fund of a charity)
* dowry (property or payment given at time of marriage)
* (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) talent

##### Related terms

* dotado
* dotal

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

dote
* inflection of dotar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “dote”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “dote”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* dowry
* talent

##### Related terms

* dotado
* dotal

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

dote
* inflection of dotar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “dote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dote, from Latin dōs.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈdote/ [ˈd̪oː.t̪ɛ]
* Rhymes: -ote
* Syllabification: do‧te

### Noun

dote (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜆᜒ)
* dowry
    Synonyms: bigay-kaya, pasalap, ubad, (dialectal) bilang

#### Derived terms

* dotehan
* magdote

### References

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

## Venetan
### Noun

dote
* plural of dota