note

note

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English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəʊt/
  • (General American) enPR: nōt, IPA(key): /noʊt/
  • Rhymes: -əʊt

Etymology 1

From Middle English note, from Old English not, nōt (“note, mark, sign”) and Old French note (“letter, note”), both from Latin nota (“mark, sign, remark, note”).

Noun

note (countable and uncountable, plural notes)

  1. A symbol or annotation.
    1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
    2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
    3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
  2. A written or printed communication or commitment.
    1. A brief piece of writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
    2. A short informal letter; a billet.
    3. (academic) An academic treatise (often without regard to length); a treatment; a discussion paper; (loosely) any contribution to an academic discourse.
    4. A diplomatic missive or written communication.
    5. (finance) A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment
    6. (obsolete) A list of items or of charges; an account.
    7. A piece of paper money; a banknote.
      Synonym: bill
    8. (extension) A small size of paper used for writing letters or notes.
  3. (music) A sound.
    2. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch.
    3. A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
    4. (by extension) A key of the piano or organ.
    5. (by extension) A call or song of a bird.
    6. (rhythm games) An indication which players have to click, type, hit, tap or do other actions if it appears
  4. (uncountable) Observation; notice; heed.
  5. (uncountable) Reputation; distinction.
  6. A critical comment.
  7. (obsolete) Notification; information; intelligence.
  8. (obsolete) Mark of disgrace.
Synonyms
  • (mark of disgrace): blemish, blot, brand, reproach, stain, stigma, taint
  • (observation, notice, heed): attention, mark; see also Thesaurus:attention
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle noting, simple past and past participle noted)

  1. (transitive) To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed.
  2. (transitive) To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
  3. (transitive) To denote; to designate.
  4. (transitive) To annotate.
  5. (transitive) To set down in musical characters.
  6. (transitive, law) To record on the back of (a bill, draft, etc.) a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
    • 2020 October 28, Kimberly Budd for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, case SJC-12769:
      By noting the protest, notaries could date certificates when they were received, making it easier to comply with time restrictions associated with protesting.
Derived terms
  • note down
Translations

See also

  • notable
  • noteless
  • benote

Etymology 2

From Middle English note (“use, usefulness, profit”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō (“enjoyment, utilisation”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”). Cognate with West Frisian not (“yield, produce, crop”), Dutch genot (“enjoyment, pleasure”), Dutch nut (“usefulness, utility, behoof”), German Nutzen (“benefit, usefulness, utility”), Icelandic not (“use”, noun). Related also to Old English notian (“to enjoy, make use of, employ”), Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old High German niozan (“to use, enjoy”) (Modern German genießen (“to enjoy”)), Modern German benutzen (“to use”). Related to nait.

Alternative forms

  • noit, noyt (Northern England)
  • not (Shetland)

Noun

note (usually uncountable, plural notes)

  1. (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
    • 1897 May 27, Halifax Courier, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, volume IV, London: Henry Frowde, page 302:
      Tha'll keep me at this noit all day... Om always at this noit.
  2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Ireland, Scotland) The giving of milk by a cow or sow; the period following calving or farrowing during which a cow or sow is at her most useful (i.e. gives milk); the milk given by a cow or sow during such a period.
Derived terms
  • notable (partly)
  • noteful

Further reading

  • “note”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “note”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
  • James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Note”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
  • note, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Volume 2, Halliwell, 1860.

Anagrams

  • Teno, ETNO, toen, ento-, tone, Eton, teno-, Tone

Afrikaans

Noun

note

  1. plural of noot

Danish

Etymology 1

From English note, from Italian nota, from Latin nota.

Noun

note c (singular definite noten, plural indefinite noter)

  1. note
    Synonyms: notat, notits
Inflection

Etymology 2

See the noun not (“groove”)

Verb

note

  1. (mechanics) to supply a board to a groove (clarification of this definition is needed)
Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nota.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

note f (plural notes)

  1. note (written or spoken)
  2. mark (UK), grade (US)
  3. bill (UK, US), check (US)
  4. (music) note
  5. touch, hint, note

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Turkish: not
  • → Persian: نت (not)
  • → Romanian: notă

Verb

note

  1. inflection of noter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “note”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

note

  1. inflection of notar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔ.te/
  • Rhymes: -ɔte
  • Hyphenation: nò‧te

Adjective

note

  1. feminine plural of noto

Noun

note f

  1. plural of nota

Anagrams

  • Neto, ento-, etno-, onte

Latin

Participle

nōte

  1. vocative masculine singular of nōtus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *nutu.

Noun

nōte f

  1. nut (fruit)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: noot
    • Afrikaans: neut
    • Jersey Dutch: nœüt, nût
    • Negerhollands: neet, noot
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: noot
    • → Papiamentu: nechi, neetsje, neetsjie (from the diminutive)
    • → Saramaccan: notò
  • Limburgish: noeat (with unexpected oea)

Further reading

  • “note (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “note (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French note (noun) and the verb noter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɔːt(ə)/

Noun

note

  1. note
  2. note: That which is needed or necessary; business; duty; work.
Descendants
  • English: note

References

  • “nōte, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English hnutu, from Proto-West Germanic *hnut, from Proto-Germanic *hnuts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnut(ə)/

Noun

note

  1. nut
Descendants
  • English: nut
  • Scots: nute, nuit, nit
  • ⇒ Yola: harnothes (plural)

References

  • “nǒte, n.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Adverb

note

  1. Alternative form of not

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

note f (plural notes)

  1. (Jersey) tune

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin nota.

Noun

note m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural noter, definite plural notene)

  1. (music) a note
  2. a note in a book or text
  3. a note (communication between governments)
  4. a banknote

Derived terms

  • fotnote

References

  • “note” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • -onet, toen, tone

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin nota.

Noun

note m (definite singular noten, indefinite plural notar, definite plural notane)

  1. (music) a note
  2. a note in a book or text
  3. a note (communication between governments)
  4. a banknote
Derived terms
  • fotnote

Etymology 2

Verb

note

  1. past participle of nyta

References

  • “note” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈno.te/

Noun

note

  1. inflection of notu:
    1. nominative plural
    2. accusative singular/plural
    3. genitive/dative singular

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

note m (plural notes)

  1. (Brazil, computing, colloquial) Clipping of notebook (“notebook computer”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: no‧te

Verb

note

  1. inflection of notar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnote]

Noun

note f pl

  1. plural of notă

Scots

Alternative forms

  • not, noit, noyt

Etymology 1

From Middle English not, note, noote, from Old English notu (“use; utility; benefit”). More at note.

Noun

note (uncountable)

  1. use; benefit
  2. necessity; occasion
  3. business; employment
  4. task; duty
  5. purpose; function; office

Etymology 2

From Middle English noten, notien, from Old English notian (“to make use of; employ; enjoy”), from Proto-Germanic *nutōną (“to make use of; enjoy”).

Verb

note (third-person singular simple present notes, present participle notin, simple past nott, past participle nott or notten)

  1. To use; employ; make use of
  2. To need

Spanish

Verb

note

  1. inflection of notar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Venetan

Alternative forms

  • not

Etymology

From Latin noctem, accusative of nox (compare Italian notte).

Noun

note f (plural noti)

  1. night

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English not, from Old English nāt; equivalent to *ne (“not”) +‎ 'ote (“know”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔːt/
  • Homophone: noucht

Verb

note

  1. I do not know.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59

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