- cottage
- late 13c., from O.Fr. cotage, from cote "hut, cottage" + Anglo-Norm. suffix -age (probably denoting "the entire property attached to a cote"). O.Fr. cot is probably from O.N. kot "hut," cognate of O.E. cot, cote "cottage, hut," from P.Gmc. *kut. Meaning "small country residence" (without suggestion of poverty or tenancy) is from 1765. First record of cottage cheese is from 1848. Cottage industry is attested from 1921.
- hut
- 1658, from Fr. hutte "cottage" (16c.), from M.H.G. hütte "cottage, hut," probably from P.Gmc. *khudjan-, from the root of O.E. hydan "to hide." Apparently first in Eng. as a military word.
- Ascot
- village near Windsor, Berkshire; site of fashionable race-meeting. Used attributively for clothes suitable for the event; esp. a type of tie (1908). The town name is lit. "eastern cottage."
- coterie
- 1738, from Fr., originally an organization of peasants holding land from a feudal lord, from cotier "tenant of a cote" (see cottage).
- cotquean
- 1540s, obsolete, "housewife of a cot," from cot (see cottage) + quean; hence "a vulgar beldam, scold" [OED]; also used contemptuously (by Shakespeare, etc.) of men seen as overly interested in housework.
- ricotta
- kind of It. cottage cheese, 1879, earlier ricoct (1582), from It. ricotta, lit. "recooked," From fem. pp. of L. recoquere.
- byre
- "cow-shed," O.E. byre, perhaps related to bur "cottage, dwelling, house;" see bower.
- cote
- O.E. cote, fem. of cot (pl. cotu) "small house" (see cottage). Applied to buildings for animals from c.1420.
- chasuble
- c.1300, cheisible, from O.Fr. chesible (Mod.Fr. chasuble), from M.L. cassubula, from L.L. *casipula, from L. casula, dim. of casa "cottage, house" (see casino), used by c.400 in transf. sense of "outer garment."
- domestic (adj.)
- 1520s, from M.Fr. domestique, from L. domesticus "belonging to the household," from domus "house," from PIE *domo-/*domu- "house, household" (cf. Skt. damah "house;" Avestan demana- "house;" Gk. domos "house," despotes "master, lord;" L. dominus "master of a household;" O.C.S. domu, Rus. dom "house;" Lith. dimstis "enclosed court, property;" O.E. timber "building, structure"), from *dem-/*dom- "build." The usual IE word for "house" (It., Sp. casa are from L. casa "cottage, hut;" Gmc. *hus is of obscure origin). The noun is 1530s. Domestics, originally "articles of home manufacture," is attested from 1620s. Related: Domestically. Domestic violence is attested from 19c. as "revolution and insurrection;" 1977 as "spouse abuse, violence in the home."