cote

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /koʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt, -oʊt
• Homophone: coat

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.

cote (plural cotes)

1. A cottage or hut.
2. 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.

• shed

See quote.

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. Obsolete form of quote.

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

cote (third-person singular simple present cotes, present participle coting, simple past and past participle coted)

1. (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.

• Ceto, OTEC, ecto-

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/

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

cote f (plural cotes)

1. call number
2. ratings

   cote de popularité ― approval rating, popularity

   avoir la cote ― to be popular

3. (architecture) dimension
4. (finance, stock market) quote
5. (horse racing, gambling) odds
6. (finance) tax assessment

   Synonym: quote-part

7. (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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cote

1. inflection of coter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

From Latin cōtem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.te/
  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Hyphenation: có‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɔte
  • Hyphenation: cò‧te

cote f (plural coti)

1. sharpening stone
2. hone

• Ceto, Toce, ceto, ecto-, teco

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

cōte

1. ablative singular of cōs

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

• coete, coot, coote, coyt, koote, kote

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔːt(ə)/

cote (plural cotes)

2. A coat, especially one worn as an undergarment or a base layer.
3. A coat or gown bearing somebody's heraldic symbols.
4. A coating or external layer; that which surrounds the outside of something.

• cote armure
• surcote

• English: coat
• Scots: coat
• Yola: cooat, coat

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

Unknown; probably related to Dutch koet.

• coote, koote, kuytt, cute, kote

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoːt(ə)/

cote (plural cootes)

2. coot (Fulica atra)
3. seagull (bird of the family Laridae)

• English: coot
• Scots: cuit

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

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

cote m

1. definite singular of rev (Etymology 1)

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.te/

cote

1. dative singular of cot

cote oblique singular, f (oblique plural cotes, nominative singular cote, nominative plural cotes)

1. Alternative form of cotte

• cate, catte^[1]
• (possibly feminine) cati, caiti^[2]

Univerbation of co (“how”) +‎ de (“from it”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodʲe/

cote

1. of what sort is…?
2. 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^c36

     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.)?

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

• 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

cote

1. inflection of cotar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative