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bot

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bongo.

Unknown. Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag (“maggot”), but the word already existed in Middle English, so the reverse direction of borrowing is likely. Possibly from Middle Low German [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bot (plural bots)

  1. The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
    • 1946, Canadian Journal of Research: Zoological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, page 76:
      One deer, later found to be heavily parasitized by bots, suffered severe vomiting attacks during the early spring.
    • 1984, Adrian Forsyth, Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature, page 157:
      Jerry prepared a glass jar with sterilized sand to act as a nursery for his pulsating bot, but despite his tender ministrations the larva dried out and died before it could encase itself in a pupal sheath.

From bottom.

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (British, slang) To bugger.
  2. (Australia, informal) To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
    Synonym: (UK) bum
    Can I bot a smoke?
    Jonny always bots off me. I just wish he’d get his own pack.

bot (plural bots)

  1. (British, slang) The bottom or backside.

Clipping of robot.

bot (plural bots)

  1. (science fiction, informal) A physical robot.
    • 1998, David G. Hartwell, editor, Year's best SF 3, page 130:
      I stared at the bot and recognized her for the first time. She was me.
    • 2005, Greg Bear, Quantico‎[1], page 71:
      As he guided the bot, Andrews reminisced about his younger days in Wyoming, when he had witnessed a mishandled load of wheat puff out a dusty fog.
    • 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void‎[2]:
      The bot juddered to a halt, as the whole lower segment of its power arm darkened.
  2. (computing) A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
    • 2009, Ryan Farley, Xinyuan Wang, “Roving Bugnet: Distributed Surveillance Threat and Mitigation”, in Dimitris Gritzalis, Javier López, editors, Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference‎[3], page 42:
      The goals of IRC bots vary widely, such as automatically kicking other users off or more nefarious things like spamming other IRC users. In this paper, a free standing IRC bot is presented that monitors an IRC channel for commands from a particular user and responds accordingly.
    • 2009, Richard K. Neumann, Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing: Structure, Strategy, and Style‎[4], page 91:
      He is particularly good at creating web robots, which are also called bots. A bot is software that searches for certain kinds of websites and then automatically does something — good or bad — on each site. Google uses bots to search and index websites.
    • 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies‎[5], page 59:
      Twitter bots can leverage Twitter′s text message support to allow users to accomplish tasks from their cell phones. You could consider Twitter accounts that are simply an automated import of blog′s RSS feed a Twitter bot.
    • 2017 January 31, Adrienne LaFrance, “The Internet Is Mostly Bots”, in The Atlantic‎[6], archived from the original on 4 February 2023:
      Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks. […] Overall, bots—good and bad—are responsible for 52 percent of web traffic, according to a new report by the security firm Imperva, which issues an annual assessment of bot activity online.
  3. (video games) A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
    Synonyms: NPC, AI
    • 2004, Daniel Sulpizi, “Rally Your Troops for RuneScape2”, in The Toronto Star‎[7]:
      Next, you are placed in the world of RuneScape, which is similar to our own, with trees, grass, buildings, animals, and of course, people. In RuneScape's shops and banks there are bots (computer-controlled players).
    • 2012, Philip Hingston, Believable Bots: Can Computers Play Like People?, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 232:
      Most games offer both single player mode, in which a player competes against computer rivals—bots—and a multiplayer mode, which is a contest among people only.
  4. (video games, slang, derogatory) A supremely unskilled player.
    • 2021 March 6, Aydan Conrad (quoted), Wesley Yin-Poole, “Call of Duty: Warzone squad sets new world record with an astonishing 162 kills in a single game”, in Eurogamer‎[8]:
      "That lobby was bronze negative 10!" Aydan joked on-stream, noting how easy it felt for his squad. "We got blessed with the lobby. It was such a bot lobby."
  5. (Internet slang, often derogatory) A person with no ability to think for themselves; (by extension) an unintelligent or contemptible person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool, Thesaurus:jerk
    • [**2024** June 10, Chris Stokel-Walker, “The word ‘**bot**’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media”, in New Scientist‎[9], →ISSN, retrieved 10 June 2024:
      The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with[.]]

a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks

bot (third-person singular simple present bots, present participle botting, simple past and past participle botted)

  1. (video games) To use a bot, or automated program.
    Players caught botting will be banned from the server.

From Dutch bot, from botte. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ.

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

  1. sprout, bud

bot (present **bot, present participle **bot, past participle gebot)

  1. to sprout, to bud

From Dutch bot, from Middle Dutch bot. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *buttaz.

bot (attributive botte, comparative botter, superlative botste)

  1. blunt, dull (of an object)
  2. obtuse, dull, stupid

bot (plural botte, diminutive botjie)

  1. a bone
  2. (fish) flounder, fluke, butt
    Synonym: botvis
  3. (parasitic flatworm) fluke
    Synonym: slakwurm

bot

  1. alternative spelling of bod

From English boat.

bot

  1. boat

Deverbal from botar.

bot m (plural bots)

  1. jump, leap
    Synonyms: salt, saltiró

Borrowed from Middle English bot (whence English boat), from Old English bāt (“boat”).

bot m (plural bots)

  1. boat
    Synonyms: barca, vaixell

Inherited from Late Latin buttis (“wineskin”), probably of Ancient Greek origin.

bot m (plural bots)

  1. wineskin
    Synonym: odre
  2. bagpipes
    Synonyms: bot de gemecs, cornamusa
  3. sunfish (large marine fish of the family Molidae)
    Synonym: mola

bot

  1. inflection of botre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Possibly from a derivative of Latin battuō, or alternatively of Germanic origin. Compare Italian botta, French botte.

bot m

  1. blow, slap, smack, whack, knock, strike, thud

From Middle Dutch bot, but, butte, related to Middle Low German but (“dull, plump, coarse”), West Frisian bot (“blunt”). Perhaps ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, butt”).

bot (comparative botter, superlative botst)

  1. not sharp, blunt, dull
    De schaar is te bot om het papier goed te knippen. ― The scissors are too blunt to cut the paper properly.
  2. impolite, badly behaving: curt, blunt, rude
    Zijn opmerking was nogal bot en kwetste haar gevoelens. ― His remark was quite impolite and hurt her feelings.
Declension of bot
uninflected bot
inflected botte
comparative botter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bot botter het botsthet botste
indefinite m./f. sing. botte bottere botste
n. sing. bot botter botste
plural botte bottere botste
definite botte bottere botste
partitive bots botters —

From Middle Dutch but. Cognate with English butt, German Butt, in all senses.

bot n (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  1. bone
    Synonyms: been, knekel, knook
    De dokter heeft vastgesteld dat hij een gebroken bot heeft. ― The doctor has determined that he has a broken bone.

From Middle Dutch bot, from Old Dutch *but, from Proto-West Germanic *butt (“stumpy”), from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“stumpy”). Cognate with English butt (“flatfish”), German Butt (“lefteye flounder”), West Frisian bot (“flounder”).

bot m (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  1. flounder (a type of fish)
    Ik heb een heerlijke bot gevangen tijdens het vissen. ― I caught a delicious flounder while fishing.

From French botte.

bot f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  1. (Belgium) boot

Borrowed from English bot, from robot.

bot m (plural bots, diminutive botje n)

  1. a bot (software for repetitive minor tasks; computer-controlled character in video games)

From Middle Dutch botte (“bud of a flower or fruit”), of uncertain origin:

bot m or f (plural botten, diminutive botje n)

  1. (botany) bud

From Middle French bot (16th c.). Of unknown origin. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“butt, stump, end”). If so, a doublet of but.

bot (feminine bote, masculine plural bots, feminine plural botes)

  1. (of a foot) affected by the deformation known as clubfoot
    un pied bot ― a clubfoot
  2. (rare, of a hand) affected by a similar-looking deformation
    une main bote ― a deformed hand

From English bot.

bot m (plural bots)

  1. (computing) bot

bot

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of bieten

From a Slavic, language, from Proto-Slavic *bъtъ.

bot (plural botok)

  1. stick, staff
  2. walking stick, cane
    Synonyms: sétabot, sétapálca

Borrowed from English boot, from Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Compare Standard Malay but.

bot (plural **bot-bot)

  1. (footware) boot: a heavy shoe that covers part of the leg

Borrowed from English bot.

bot (plural **bot-bot)

  1. bot:
    1. (science fiction) a physical robot
    2. (computing) a piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bot (plural **bot-bot)

  1. a container made from nibung fronds, usually used to hold water

Borrowed from Acehnese [Term?].

bot (comparative lebih bot, superlative paling bot)

  1. arching the back to stretch the body

Derived from English but.

bot

  1. but
    Im waan unu nof taim, bot unu naa lisn.
    He warned you many times, but you didn't listen.

bot

  1. romanization of ꦧꦺꦴꦠ꧀
PIE root
*bʰeyd-

Inherited from Old English bāt, from Proto-West Germanic *bait, from Proto-Germanic *baitaz.

bot (plural botes)

  1. A seafaring vessel or watercraft:
    1. A boat (a vessel smaller than a ship).
    2. A boat stowed on a ship (especially for tendering).
  2. (figurative) The path or course of one's life; one's direction.

bot

  1. alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

bot

  1. alternative form of bat

bot

  1. alternative form of bote (“help, benefit”)

bot

  1. alternative form of bote (“boot”)

From Proto-Celtic *bozdos (“tail, penis”) (compare Welsh both (“hub, nave”), Breton bod (“bush, shrub; branch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gwosdʰos (“piece of wood”), compare Proto-Slavic *gvozdь (“nail, tack, peg”).

bot m

  1. tail
  2. penis

Mutation of bot

radical lenition nasalization
bot botpronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ mbot

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (cf. Cornish bos, Breton bout), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”); all the b- initial forms are from the same root. The vowel-initial forms are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

The third-person singular present mae originally meant “here is” and is from the same source as yma (“here”) plus Proto-Celtic *esti. The third-person plural maent, maen is derived from the singular by adding the third-person plural verb ending -nt.

bot

  1. to be

Mutated forms of bot

radical soft nasal aspirate
bot uot / vot mot unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”).

bot f or m (definite singular bota or boten, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

  1. a fine (sum of money to be paid as a penalty for an offence)
  2. a remedy
  3. a patch

From Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”).

bot f (definite singular bota, indefinite plural bøter, definite plural bøtene)

  1. a fine (as above)
  2. a remedy
  3. a patch

Borrowed from Old French bote.

bot m inan

  1. boot (high, tight, close-fitting, often pointed leather shoe, reaching to the ankles or higher)

From Proto-West Germanic *bōtu (“recompense”).

bōt f (nominative plural bōte)

  1. help, assistance, rescue, remedy, cure, deliverance from evil
    • Byþ hræd bót. ― The cure will be quick.
  2. mending, repair, improvement
    • ... and án swulung þǽre cirican to bóte ― and an offering to the church for repairs
  3. compensation for an injury or wrong; (peace) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance
    • For bóte his synna ― for a redressing of his sins
  4. improvement in (moral) condition, amendment
    • Hé tó bóte gehwearf ― he was converted

Strong _ō_-stem:

From Vulgar Latin *padda, probably a Germanic loan from Frankish *paddā (“toad”). Compare Italian botta (“toad”), Old English padde (“toad”), Old Norse padda (“toad”). More at paddock.

bot oblique singular, f (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular **bot, nominative plural boz or botz)

  1. toad (animal)

From boter (“to strike”), from Frankish *buttan, from *bautan (“to hit, strike”).

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural **bot)

  1. strike; hit; blow

See bat.

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural **bot)

  1. alternative form of bat

See bout.

bot oblique singular, m (oblique plural boz or botz, nominative singular boz or botz, nominative plural **bot)

  1. alternative form of bout

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *bod (“command, order”).

bot n

  1. (approving) opinion, decision

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bəʀəqat (compare Malay berat). Doublet of bwat and wrat.

bot

  1. heavy

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhat. Doublet of bwat and wwat.

bot

  1. style, make

Borrowed from Old Czech bot. The change from bot to but was probably influenced by obuć. First attested in 1415.

bot m inan (diminutive butek)

  1. (attested in Masovia, Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) footwear, shoe
    • 1920 [1415], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number 2559, Płońsk:
      O ctore boti Mscziszek na mø szalowal, thichem ya v Pechni ne wzøl
      [O ktore boty Mściszek na mię żałował, tychem ja u Piechny nie wziął]
    • 1868 [1448], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎[12], volume XI (quotation in Old Polish; overall work in Polish, Latin, and Old Polish), page 328:
      Item *budky pro tribus grossis et buthy magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos
      [Item *budky pro tribus grossis et buty magnas usque ad genu IHI-or grossos]
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “Jos”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎transliteration, transcription, 5, 16:
      Zvy boty z nog twich, bo myescze, na nyemze to stogis, swymø te gest
      [Zuj boty z nog twych, bo mieście, na niemże to stojisz, swymą te jest]
    • 1927 [c. 1455], Kazimierz Dobrowolski, editor, Przyczynki do dziejów średniowiecznej kultury polskiej z rękopisu szczyrzyckiego, Szczyrzyc, page 324:
      Mnye wthoremu *dzeye luthy. Geszlisz nag, przyodzey[ey] [bo]thy
      [Mnie wtoremu dzieją luty, jesliś nag, przyodziej [bo]ty]
    • 1950 [1470], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 1275, Warsaw:
      Ysze Woczech Marczina, schina szwego, hu Michala... vgednal sza rzadne odzenye y dal mv szuknya sza trzinaccze grozi a bothi za poltrzecza groza, a on oth nyego przez czasu othszethl
      [Iże Wociech Marcina, syna swego, hu Michała... ujednał za rządne odzienie i dał mu suknią za trzynaćcie groszy a boty za połtrzecia grosza, a on ot niego przez czasu odszedł]
    • 1950 [1471], Władysław Kuraszkiewicz, Adam Wolff, editors, Zapiski i roty polskie XV-XVI wieku z ksiąg sądowych ziemi warszawskiej, number 3051, Warsaw:
      Jakom ya drogy... kxadzv Janowy... nye zasthapyl... *amy go gonyl, any w them gemv szgynaly bothy, pyerz, sschaffran y vszda
      [Jakom ja drogi... ksiądzu Janowi... nie zastąpił... *a my go gonił, ani w tem jemu zginęły boty, pierz, szafran i uzda]
    • 1923 [1478], Helena Polaczkówna, editor, Najstarsza księga sądowa wsi Trześniowa 1419-1609‎[13], Trześniów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, page 100:
      Expurgans innocenciam suam al. szwoyą nyevynoscz, czosch byla obwyny[o]na o bothy *zyamischowa
      [Expurgans innocenciam suam al. swoją niewinność, coż była obwini[o]na o boty zamszowe]
    • 1928 [End of the fifteenth century], Jan Janów, editor, Zespół ewangelijny Biblioteki Ordynacji Zamoyskich nr 1116‎transliteration, transcription, Warsaw, page 299:
      Alyecz przyydzye mocznyeyszy, chthorego nye yestem dostoyen rosvyąsacz rzemyszka bothow yego
      [Aleć przyjdzie mocniejszy, chtorego nie jestem dostojen rozwięzać rzemyszka botow jego]
    • 1874-1891 [c. 1500], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎[14], [15], [16], volume XLVII, page 354:
      Wyechecz sz botha *blathra
      [Wiecheć z bota *blathra]
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎[17], page 235:
      Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i ty boty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało
      [Święty Bartło­miej... miał odzienie pawłoczyste na sobie..., a buty perłami i drogiem kamieniem opra­wione,... a to odzienie i ty boty aże do jego świętej śmierci nigdy sie nie starzało]
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎[18], page 387:
      Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę i boty na nogi
      [Ociec rzekł... ku swem sługam:... dajcie pier­ ścień na jego rękę i boty na nogi]
    • Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa‎[19], page 638:
      Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przez botow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?
      [Kristus... rzekł ku swem zwolenikom: Kiedym was słał przez moszny, przez toboły, przez botow..., azali wam czego nie dostawało?]
    • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 58r:
      *Glipiusz vyechecz s bothą
      [Glipiusz wiecheć z bota]

From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō.

bōt f

  1. improvement
  2. benefit, utility
  3. cure
  4. compensation

Declension of bōt (consonant stem)

| | singular | plural | | | | | ----------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | | | nominative | bōt | bōtin, bōtrenbōterin, bōterenbōtern | bø̄ter | bø̄trina, bø̄trinar, bø̄trena, bø̄trenar | | accusative | bōt | bōtina, bōtena | bø̄ter | bø̄trina, bø̄trinar, bø̄trena, bø̄trenar | | dative | bōt | bōtinni, bōtinne | bōtum, bōtom | bōtumin, bōtomen | | genitive | bōta, bōtar | bōtinna, bōtinnar | bōta | bōtanna |

or

Borrowed from English bot.

bot m animal

  1. (computing) bot

See but.

bot m inan (diminutive botek)

  1. ankle boot
  2. Middle Polish form of but

Unadapted borrowing from English bot. Doublet of robô.

bot m (plural bots)

  1. (computing) bot (a piece of software for doing repetitive tasks)
  2. (video games) bot (a player controlled by software)

Unknown. Possibly from a Vulgar Latin root *botum, perhaps from Latin botulus or from a root *botium, a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *boce (“knob”), from Old High German bozzan (“to beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to push, strike”).[1]

Compare Italian bozza, French bosse. See also butuc and boț.

bot n (plural boturi)

  1. (of animals) snout, mouth
  2. (of a person, vulgar) mouth
  3. bump
  4. hump
  5. (vulgar) blowjob
  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*bottia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1: A–B, page 469

From English bot.

bot m (plural boți)

  1. bot

Borrowed from English bot.

bot m (plural bots)

  1. bot (robot)

From Old Swedish bōt (“improvement”), from Old Norse ᛒᚢᛏ (but) (in the Latin script bót) whence also Icelandic bót), from Proto-Germanic *bōtō. Akin to English boot (“remedy, profit”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish.

bot c

  1. fine (penalty in money)

Originally the same word as etymology 1.

bot c

  1. cure; remedy
  2. (religious) penance

Unadapted borrowing from English bot.

bot c

  1. bot (robot)

From Proto-Turkic *būt (“thigh”).

bot

  1. thigh

From French botte.

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

  1. boot

From English boat

bot (definite accusative botu, plural botlar)

  1. boat
    Synonym: tekne

bot (genitive bota, plural bots)

  1. boat

From Old Frisian butie, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end piece”), related to English butt.

bot

  1. curt, blunt, rude
  2. dull (as a knife)
Inflection of bot
uninflected bot
inflected botte
comparative botter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial bot botter it botstit botste
indefinite c. sing. botte bottere botste
n. sing. bot botter botste
plural botte bottere botste
definite botte bottere botste
partitive bots botters —

bot

  1. very, quite

Uncertain. Possibly derived from etymology 1 in the sense “blunt(-headed fish)”. Compare Dutch bot and English butt (“flatfish”) (and thus the second element of English halibut).

bot c (plural botten, diminutive botsje or botke)

  1. flounder (a type of fish)