See also: boite, Boite, and boité

French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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  • IPA(key): /bwat/ ~ /bwɑt/
    • Audio (France); une boîte [yn bwat]:(file)
    • Audio (Quebec); [bwɑːt]:(file)
  • IPA(key): /bwɛːt/ (Canada, colloquial or dated)

Noun

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boîte f (plural boîtes)

  1. box (the container)
  2. tin, can
  3. (colloquial) Ellipsis of boîte de nuit.: club, nightclub
    Synonym: discothèque
  4. (informal) company, employer
    Synonym: entreprise

Derived terms

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French terms starting with “boîte”

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Descendants

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See also

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French boîte.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boîte f (plural boîtes)

  1. nightclub
    Synonyms: antro, club nocturno

Usage notes

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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.

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