dote: [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive fondness’ did not develop until the 15th century. Related forms include dotage [14], where the notion of ‘simple-mindedness due to senility’ (implicit in the verb from earliest times) has passed to simply ‘senility’; dotterel [15], the name of a sort of plover, supposedly so called because it was foolish enough to allow itself to get caught; and dotty [19], an alteration of Scottish English dottle ‘fool’, which was a derivative of dote. => dotage, dotterel, dotty
dote (v.)
c. 1200, "to be feeble-minded from age," from Middle Low German doten "be foolish," which is of unknown origin. Meaning "to be infatuated" is from late 15c. Related: Doted; dotes; doting.
例文
1. They dote on their daughter.
彼らは娘を掌中の真珠と見なしている。
2.And great souls，at one stroke，may do and dote .
調和のとれたリズム。弓1枚で、誠実な/魂は、絞めることができて、同時に溺愛することができます。
3.Nature shall not grow old and dote .
自然は一日にして老化することはありません。
4.I just dote on hot buttered scones！
私はバターを塗ったホットスコーンが好きです！
5.A rowdy kid like that is just the kind that parents dote on.