cotte

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

cotte f (plural cottes)

1. (historical) coat, tunic
2. (archaic) petticoat
3. overalls

Derived terms

• cotte de mailles

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔt.te/
• Rhymes: -ɔtte
• Hyphenation: còt‧te

Adjective

cotte

1. feminine plural of cotto

Noun

cotte f pl

1. plural of cotta

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French cotte (“outer garment with sleeves”), from Latin cotta, from Proto-Germanic *kuttô, *kuttǭ (“cowl, woolen cloth, coat”).

Noun

cotte f (plural cottes)

1. (Guernsey) coat

Etymology 2

From Old Northern French cote, cot (“hut”), from Old Norse kot (“hut”) and/or Frankish *kotu (“shed”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kutō (“tent, stall, shed, hut”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”).

Noun

cotte f (plural cottes)

1. (Jersey) pigsty
2. (Jersey) cave

Synonyms

• (pigsty): cotte à couochons

Old French

Alternative forms

• cote, cot

Etymology

From Latin cotta, Proto-Germanic *kuttô.

Noun

cotte oblique singular, f (oblique plural cottes, nominative singular cotte, nominative plural cottes)

1. overshirt, tunic

Descendants

• Middle French: cotte, cote
  • French: cotte
• Norman: cotte (Guernesiais)
• Walloon: cote (Liégeois)
• → Middle English: cotte, cote, coate
  • Scots: cot, cote
  • English: coat
    • → Scots: coat
• ⇒ Old French: surcot, surcote, sorcot
  • → Middle English: surcote
    • English: surcoat
  • → Old Norse: surkot, syrkot
    • Icelandic: kot
    • Faroese: kot