dote

英 [d??t] 美[dot]

TEM8GRE擴展詞匯

第三人稱單數:?dotes;過去式:?doted;過去分詞:?doted;現在分詞:?doting;

Dote：逗他。整天逗他陪他玩----溺愛。

dote 糊涂，溺愛

來自低地德語，糊涂，愚蠢。溺愛義可能來自詞根don, 給予，詞源同data, donate.

dote: dote: [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive fondness’ did not develop until the 15th century. Related forms include dotage [14], where the notion of ‘simple-mindedness due to senility’ (implicit in the verb from earliest times) has passed to simply ‘senility’; dotterel [15], the name of a sort of plover, supposedly so called because it was foolish enough to allow itself to get caught; and dotty [19], an alteration of Scottish English dottle ‘fool’, which was a derivative of dote.
=> dotage, dotterel, dotty
dote (v.): c. 1200, "to be feeble-minded from age," from Middle Low German doten "be foolish," which is of unknown origin. Meaning "to be infatuated" is from late 15c. Related: Doted; dotes; doting.

2. And great souls , at one stroke, may do and dote.: 和諧的韻律;而憑一張弓,真誠的/靈魂, 可以在勒索、也同時在溺愛.

5. A rowdy kid like that is just the kind that parents dote on.: 做父母所寵愛的,正是這種調皮搗蛋的孩子.