botín

See also: botin

Galician

Etymology

From Spanish botín.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [boˈtiŋ]

Noun

botín m (plural botíns)

1. booty, loot
   • 1895, A. López Ferreiro, A tecedeira de Bonaval, page 198:

     […] por canto o reino de Galicia contribuíra con 40.000 ducados para o equipo d'armada, e por canto o botín que se collera nos barcos franceses acababa de ser arrebatado dos portos gallegos, procedía que se lles restituíse.

     […] since the Kingdom of Galicia contributed with 40,000 ducats for provisions of the army, and since the booty taken from the French ships had just been snatched from the Galician harbours, it was proceeding to restitute it

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “botín”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Spanish

Etymology

First attested in 1495; from Occitan or Old Occitan botin, 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

Related terms

• botiquín

 

Further reading

• “botín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10