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Webster 1913 Edition

Hote

Hote

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
pres. & imp.
Hatte
,
Hot
, etc.;
p. p.
Hote
,
Hoten
,
Hot
, etc. See
Hight
,
Hete
.]
1.
To command; to enjoin.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
2.
To promise.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
3.
To be called; to be named.
[Obs.]
There as I was wont to
hote
Arcite,
Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hote

HOT

, HOTE, HOTEN,
pp.
Called; named.

Definition 2024

hote

hote

See also: hôte

English

Verb

hote ‎(third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)

  1. (obsolete) To command; to enjoin.
  2. (obsolete) To promise.
  3. (obsolete) To be called, be named; to call, name.

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, from Old English hātan ‎(“to command, be called”), from Proto-Germanic *haitaną ‎(“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *kei-, *ki- ‎(“put in motion, be moving”). Cognate with Dutch heten ‎(“to be named”), German heißen ‎(“to be called”), Swedish heta ‎(“to be called”). Related to hight, hete.

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