bouteille

Dutch

Alternative forms

• boetelje, bottelje, boutelje (all obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouteille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈtɛi̯(l).jə/
• Hyphenation: bou‧teil‧le

Noun

bouteille f (plural bouteilles, no diminutive)

1. (archaic) bottle

   Synonym: fles

Related terms

• bottel

French

Etymology

From Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.tɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun

bouteille f (plural bouteilles)

1. bottle (container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids)

   boire à la bouteille ― to drink straight from the bottle

   mettre en bouteille ― to bottle

   mise en bouteille ― bottling

2. (figuratively) alcohol

   aimer la bouteille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   être porté sur la bouteille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. experience

   avoir de la bouteille ― to be experienced

   prendre de la bouteille ― to gain experience

Derived terms

Related terms

• avec des si on mettrait Paris en bouteille
• bouteille à la mer
• cul-de-bouteille
• demi-bouteille
• embouteiller
• ouvre-bouteille
• règle de bouteille

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: boutèy

Borrowings

• → Alemannic German: Butëlle
• → Aragonese: botella
• → Asturian: botella
• → Basque: botila
• → Bulgarian: бутилка (butilka) (+ -ка (-ka))
• → Catalan: botella
• → Chinook Jargon: laputay
  • → Makah: lapu·ta·y
• → Dutch: bouteille, boetelje, bottelje, boutelje (all obsolete) (obsolete)
• → Galician: botella
• → German: Bouteille (obsolete, unadapted)
• → German: Buttel (adapted)
  • → Polish: butla
    • ⇒ Polish: butelka (see there for further descendants)
• → Italian: bottiglia
  • → Albanian: butile, butilë, botile
  • → Greek: μποτίλια (botília)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: butelja / бутеља, botilja / ботиља
• → Lithuanian: butelis
• → Middle Low German: buddel
  • German Low German: Buddel
    • → German: Buddel
  • Plautdietsch: Buddel
  • → Estonian: pudel
  • → Latvian: pudele
• → Moore: butelle, bugtelle
• → Northern Sami: bohtal
• → Portuguese: botelha
• → Romanian: butelie
• → Russian: бутыль (butylʹ)
• → Spanish: botella (see there for further descendants)
• → Swedish: butelj
  • → Finnish: puteli
• → Serbo-Croatian: putela / путела
• → Tamil: பத்தாயி (pattāyi)

Further reading

• “bouteille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.