verb/ka.bɔ.te/
to coast, to hug the coastline (to travel by the coast); to transport goods or passenger, to provide cabotage
Synonyms: côtoyer, serrer la côte
Uncertain, perhaps from cap + -oter, influenced by Spanish cabo (“cape”). Sometimes claimed to be derived from Italian explorer Sebastian Cabot (c. 1474–1557) or John Cabot (c. 1450–1500), but the Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales describes this derivation as unsupported by the chronology.