botte

boot (footwear); something resembling a boot; oppression; the top of the class in polytechnic school

“la botte italienne” — the Italian boot

Inherited from Old French bote, from Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz. See English boot.

bunch, bundle (of flowers, vegetables); bundle, sheaf (of grain); bale (bundle of compressed wool or hay); fodder or feed for small livestock; a bundle of skeins

“Je lui ai proposé la botte. En vain !” — I offered to have sex with her. No luck!

Borrowed from Middle Dutch bote (“bundle of flax; tuft”), akin to Middle Low German bōte (“bundle of flax”).

thrust

Related: proposer la botte

Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.

ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet); large barrel, cask; a former unit of measure: about 230 kilograms; about 500 pounds; a former unit of measure, varying with time and place: about 190 to 520 litres; about 50 to 140 US gallons

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).