boîte
French
Alternative forms
- boite (1990 reform spelling)
Etymology
From Old French boiste, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, from a conflation of Latin pyxis (“small box”) and buxus (“box tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bwat/
audio (France) (file) - (Quebec, cultivated, dated) IPA(key): /bwɛːt/
audio (Quebec, Montreal) (file) - (Quebec, nonstandard) IPA(key): [bwaɛ̯t]
audio (Quebec, Gaspésie) (file)
Noun
boîte f (plural boîtes)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
See also
- caisson m
Further reading
- “boîte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bwat/
Synonyms
- antro m
- club nocturno m
References
- “boîte” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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