botte.
boot (footwear)
Meaning & usage
boot (footwear)
something resembling a boot
la botte italienne
une botte à bière
oppression
Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi.
the top of the class in polytechnic school
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French bote, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz. See English boot.
bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables)
bundle, sheaf (of grain)
bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay)
fodder or feed for small livestock
a bundle of skeins
bunch (large amount of something)
sex, proposed to a woman by a man
Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain !
bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (“bundle of flax; tuft”), akin to Middle Low German bōte (“bundle of flax”).
thrust
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.
ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)
large barrel, cask
a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds
a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons
Where this word comes from
Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).
inflection of botter: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
inflection of botter: second-person singular imperative
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French bote, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz. See English boot.
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