# cote
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəʊt/
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* (General American) IPA: /koʊt/
* Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt
* Homophone: coat

### Etymology 1

From Middle English cote, from the Old English cote, the feminine form of cot (“small house”); doublet of cot (in the sense of “cottage”) and more distantly related to cottage. Cognate to Dutch kot.

#### Noun

cote (plural cotes)
* A cottage or hut.
* A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes.

##### Synonyms

* shed

##### Derived terms

* bellcote
* dovecote
* hogcote
* sheepcote
* swinecote

### Etymology 2

See quote.

#### Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
* Obsolete form of quote.

### Etymology 3

Probably related to French côté (“side”) via Middle French costé.

#### Verb

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)
* (obsolete) To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
    A dog cotes a hare.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
** 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
    [...]strength to pull down a bull—swiftness to cote an antelope.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “cote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

* Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔt/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.

#### Noun

cote f (plural cotes)
* call number
* ratings
    cote de popularité ― approval rating, popularity
    avoir la cote ― to be popular
* (architecture) dimension
* (finance, stock market) quote
* (horse racing, gambling) odds
* (finance) tax assessment
    Synonym: quote-part
* (analytic geometry) applicate, z-coordinate (the last of the three terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of Cartesian coordinates for a three-dimensional space)
    Coordinate terms: abscisse, ordonnée

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cote
* inflection of coter:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin cōtem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.te/
** Rhymes: -ote
** Hyphenation: có‧te
* IPA: /ˈkɔ.te/
** Rhymes: -ɔte
** Hyphenation: cò‧te

### Noun

cote f (plural coti)
* sharpening stone
* hone

### Anagrams

* Ceto, Toce, ceto, ecto-, teco

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkoː.te/, [ˈkoːt̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈko.te/, [ˈkɔːt̪e]

### Noun

cōte
* ablative singular of cōs

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old French cote, cotte, from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

#### Alternative forms

* coete, coot, coote, coyt, koote, kote

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔːt(ə)/

#### Noun

cote (plural cotes)
* A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
* A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
* A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

##### Related terms

* cote armure
* surcote

##### Descendants

* English: coat
* Scots: coat
* Yola: cooat, coat

##### References

* “cōte, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

### Etymology 2

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

#### Alternative forms

* coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoːt(ə)/

#### Noun

cote (plural cootes)
* coot (Fulica atra)
* seagull (bird of the family Laridae)

##### Descendants

* English: coot
* Scots: cuit
* ⇒ Yola: ballcoot

##### References

* “cọ̄te, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-17.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

cote m
* definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

cote m
* definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.te/

### Noun

cote
* dative singular of cot

## Old French
### Noun

cote oblique singular, f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)
* Alternative form of cotte

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* cate, catte
* (possibly feminine) cati, caiti

### Etymology

Univerbation of co (“how”) +‎ de (“from it”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkodʲe/

### Particle

cote
* of what sort is…?
* what is…?
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12$^c$36
    Cote mo thorbe-se dúib mad [a]mne labrar?What do I profit you pl (lit. ‘what is my profit to you’) if it be thus that I speak (subj.)?

#### Descendants

* Irish: goidé, cad é, cad
* Scottish Gaelic: ciod e, dè, ciod

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* 1 2 E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150: “The only known Irish form which behaves in this way is the third singular non-feminine form of the preposition di, and I suggest that in fact cote is a phrase co de.”

### Further reading

* Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 462, 466; reprinted 2017

## Portuguese
### Verb

cote
* inflection of cotar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative