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Doté is a French adjective, formed from the past participle of the verb doter. It means endowed, equipped, or gifted with something. The expression is typically used with the preposition de to indicate what is possessed: for example, un pays doté de ressources abondantes, une personne dotée de talents, une équipe dotée d’un budget conséquent. The feminine form is dotée, and the plural forms are dotés (masculine) and dotées (feminine).

As an adjective, doté agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies and can be used predicatively after être or attributively before the noun in some stylistic contexts: un homme doté d’une grande intelligence or une société dotée d’outils modernes. The construction with de is standard and indispensable when specifying the possessed attribute or resource.

In usage, doté emphasizes inherent or acquired endowments, qualities, or capacities. It is often preferred to more general phrases, while other expressions such as pourvu de (provided with) or muni de (equipped with) may be chosen when referring to physical equipment or tangible provisions. The related noun dotation denotes an endowment, grant, or allocation.

Etymology: doté comes from the verb doter, which means to endow or furnish, with roots in older French and ultimately linked to the broader notion of provisioning or endowment.

See also: doter, dotation, pourvu de, muni de.