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発音

• enPR: dōt
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dəʊt/
• (General American) IPA: /doʊt/
• 韻: -əʊt

語源 1

The verb is derived from 中期英語 doten, from Middle Low German doten (“to be foolish”) or Middle Dutch doten (“to be silly”). Doublet of doit (Scottish English).

The noun in the sense of "imbecile" is derived from 中期英語 dote (“simpleton”), itself from doten (see above). The noun in the sense of "darling" and "decay" is derived from the modern verb.

動詞

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

1. (intransitive, stative, usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

   Synonyms: adore, love

   Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.

   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, “A to B”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:

     Jules doted on Chris, spending hours while Chris was at school assembling vast cities out of microscopic Lego pieces to surprise him when he returned.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
   • 1692–1717, Robert South, “Ill-disposed Affections […] ”, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Time has made you dote, and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.

3. (intransitive, of trees, rare or obsolete) To rot, decay.

派生語

• (be foolishly fond of): dote over
• (act in a foolish manner): dotard, dotterel
• dotage, fordote

名詞

dote (countable and uncountable, plural dotes)

1. (countable, Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.

2. (countable, obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
   • 1630, Tinker of Turvey:

     How did his death-bed make him a doate!

3. (uncountable, rare) Decay in a tree.

同意語

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

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 dote (“endowment”) (c. 1450), from Middle French dote (modern dot), from Latin dos.

名詞

dote (plural dotes)

1. (obsolete) Dowry.

語源 3

From Middle French doter, Latin dōtāre.

動詞

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To endow, donate.

アナグラム

• tode, toed

別の表記

• doote

発音

• IPA: /ˈdɔːt(ə)/

名詞

dote

1. An idiot or imbecile; a dotard.
2. A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.

派生した語

• English: dote

参照

• “dōte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 August 2018.

語源 2

動詞

dote

1. alternative form of doten

参照

• "dote", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)