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botte.

boot (footwear)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɔt/
  1. boot (footwear)

    feminine
  2. something resembling a boot

    feminine
    la botte italienne
    une botte à bière
  3. oppression

    feminine · figuratively
    Les Juifs ont grandement souffert sous la botte du régime nazi.
  4. the top of the class in polytechnic school

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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

noun/bɔt/
  1. bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables)

    feminine
  2. bundle, sheaf (of grain)

    feminine
  3. bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay)

    feminine
  4. fodder or feed for small livestock

    broadly · feminine
  5. a bundle of skeins

    feminine
  6. bunch (large amount of something)

    feminine
  7. sex, proposed to a woman by a man

    feminine · informal
    Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain !
  8. bale (measurement of hay weighing 30-50 kg)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (“bundle of flax; tuft”), akin to Middle Low German bōte (“bundle of flax”).

noun/bɔt/
  1. thrust

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.

noun/bɔt/
  1. ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)

    feminine
  2. large barrel, cask

    feminine
  3. a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds

    feminine · historical
  4. a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons

    feminine · historical
Where this word comes from

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).

verb/bɔt/
  1. inflection of botter: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person
  2. inflection of botter: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
Where this word comes from

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

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