boîte
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French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French boiste, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, from a conflation of Latin pyxis (“small box”) and buxus (“box tree”). Doublet of box.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boîte f (plural boîtes)
- box (the container)
- tin, can
- (colloquial) Ellipsis of boîte de nuit.: club, nightclub
- Synonym: discothèque
- (informal) company, employer
- Synonym: entreprise
Derived terms
[edit]French terms starting with “boîte”
- boîte à camembert
- boîte à cigare
- boîte à gants
- boîte à musique
- boîte à outils
- boîte à suggestions
- boîte automatique
- boîte aux lettres
- boîte crânienne
- boîte CVT
- boîte de conserve
- boîte de conserves
- boîte de dépôt
- boîte de nuit
- boîte de Pandore
- boîte de Pétri
- boîte de réception
- boîte de vitesse
- boîte d’allumettes
- boîte manuelle
- boîte noire
- boîte postale
- boîtelette
- ouvre-boîtes
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
See also
[edit]- caisson m
Further reading
[edit]- “boîte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French boîte.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boîte f (plural boîtes)
- nightclub
- Synonyms: antro, club nocturno
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “boîte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
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