botín

See also: botin

Spanish

Etymology

First attested in 1495; from Occitan or Old Occitan botin[1][2], from Vulgar Latin *botinus, possibly borrowed from Gaulish boudi (“victory, advantage, profit”), from Proto-Celtic *boudi. Cognate with Catalan botí, Old French butin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /boˈtin/ [boˈt̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: bo‧tín

Noun

botín m (plural botines)

  1. booty, loot, haul
    Synonym: presa
  2. swag

References
  1. Coromines, Joan (1961), “botín”, in Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 105
  2. “botín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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