doter

See also: dôter

English

Etymology

From dote +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

doter (plural doters)

1. Synonym of dotard (“old person with impaired intellect”)
   • 1843, Astolphe marquis de Custine, The Empire of the Czar, page 103:

     “Hold thy tongue! old doter; how should my daughter resemble thy son?”

2. Synonym of dotard (“one who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness”)

Synonyms

• (dotard): dodipole, mimmerkin; see also Thesaurus:dotard

Anagrams

• orted, roted, toder, trode

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dōtāre. Doublet of douer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

doter

1. (transitive) to endow, donate
2. (transitive) to fund

   L’école accueille 170 élèves dans des salles propres, mais pauvrement dotées.

   The school welcomes 170 pupils to its clean, but poorly funded classrooms.

Conjugation

Conjugation of doter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	doter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dotant /dɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		doté /dɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dote /dɔt/	dotes /dɔt/	dote /dɔt/	dotons /dɔ.tɔ̃/	dotez /dɔ.te/	dotent /dɔt/
	imperfect	dotais /dɔ.tɛ/	dotais /dɔ.tɛ/	dotait /dɔ.tɛ/	dotions /dɔ.tjɔ̃/	dotiez /dɔ.tje/	dotaient /dɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	dotai /dɔ.te/	dotas /dɔ.ta/	dota /dɔ.ta/	dotâmes /dɔ.tam/	dotâtes /dɔ.tat/	dotèrent /dɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	doterai /dɔ.tʁe/	doteras /dɔ.tʁa/	dotera /dɔ.tʁa/	doterons /dɔ.tʁɔ̃/	doterez /dɔ.tʁe/	doteront /dɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	doterais /dɔ.tʁɛ/	doterais /dɔ.tʁɛ/	doterait /dɔ.tʁɛ/	doterions /dɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	doteriez /dɔ.tə.ʁje/	doteraient /dɔ.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	dote /dɔt/	dotes /dɔt/	dote /dɔt/	dotions /dɔ.tjɔ̃/	dotiez /dɔ.tje/	dotent /dɔt/
	imperfect2	dotasse /dɔ.tas/	dotasses /dɔ.tas/	dotât /dɔ.ta/	dotassions /dɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	dotassiez /dɔ.ta.sje/	dotassent /dɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dote /dɔt/	—	dotons /dɔ.tɔ̃/	dotez /dɔ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• torde

Latin

Verb

dōter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dōtō

Old French

Alternative forms

• douter, doubter, duter

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dubitō.

Verb

doter

1. to doubt
2. to fear; to be afraid (of)
   • 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 11, column 1, line 19:

     Saint Lorenz dit torment ne dot

     Saint Laurence says he doesn't fear torture

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of doter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		doter			avoir doté
gerund		en dotant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		dotant
past participle		doté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	dot	dotes	dote	dotons	dotez	dotent
	imperfect	dotoie, doteie, dotoe, doteve	dotoies, doteies, dotoes, doteves	dotoit, doteit, dotot, doteve	dotiiens, dotiens	dotiiez, dotiez	dotoient, doteient, dotoent, dotevent
	preterite	dotai	dotas	dota	dotames	dotastes	doterent
	future	doterai	doteras	dotera	doterons	doteroiz, dotereiz, doterez	doteront
	conditional	doteroie, dotereie	doteroies, dotereies	doteroit, dotereit	doteriiens, doteriens	doteriiez, doteriez	doteroient, dotereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	dot	doz	dot	dotons	dotez	dotent
	imperfect	dotasse	dotasses	dotast	dotissons, dotissiens	dotissoiz, dotissez, dotissiez	dotassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	dote	—	dotons	dotez	—

Derived terms

• doutance
• redoter

Descendants

• French: douter
• → Middle English: douten
  • English: doubt

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (2. doter, supplement)
• duter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub