boîte
French
/bwɛːt/, [bwaɛ̯t]
noun
Definitions
- box the container
- tin, can
- (colloquial) : club, nightclub
- (informal) company, employer
Etymology
Inherited from Old French boiste inherited from Latin *buxita, buxis (box), pyxis (small box, medicine box, small box for medicines toiletries, little box).
Origin
Latin
pyxis
Gloss
small box, medicine box, small box for medicines toiletries, little box
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Pyxis English
- pyxis English
- *buxita Latin
- buxida Latin
- buxis Latin
- buxus Latin
- pyxis Latin
- bussola Italian
- busta Italian
- bustarella Italian
- bustina Italian
- bùssola, bussola Italian
- fuoribusta Italian
- imbustare Italian
- pyxis Dutch, Flemish
- boîte crânienne French
- boîtelette French
- crânienne French
- déboîtement French
- déboîter French
- boîte Spanish, Castilian
- buje Spanish, Castilian
- πυξίς Ancient Greek
- boate Portuguese
- *buhsuz Proto-Germanic
- puszka Polish
- boiste Old French
- bústia Catalan, Valencian
- boeta Galician
- buxola Galician
- búsula Galician
- būhse Old High German
- bóstia Occitan
- piseóc Middle Irish
- bwat Haitian, Haitian Creole
- bwat Mauritian Creole
- boaty Malagasy
- bwat Seychellois Creole
- boata Moore