boutique
See also: Boutique
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buːˈtiːk/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /boʊˈtik/
- Rhymes: -iːk
Noun
boutique (plural boutiques)
- A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
- A small shop located within a larger one.
- (film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.
- (often attributive) Any company that has an exclusively smaller client base generally in a niche market or specializing in bespoke or custom-made products or services.
- a boutique software consultancy
- 1982, ABA Journal, volume 68, page 661:
- To keep attracting clients, the law firm of the future just might turn into a legal boutique, says Earle Yaffa, the managing director […]
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Cebuano: botik
Translations
small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like
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Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbutiːk/, [ˈbut̪iːk]
Declension
| Inflection of boutique (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | boutique | boutiquet | ||
| genitive | boutiquen | boutiquejen | ||
| partitive | boutiquea | boutiqueja | ||
| illative | boutiqueen | boutiqueihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | boutique | boutiquet | ||
| accusative | nom. | boutique | boutiquet | |
| gen. | boutiquen | |||
| genitive | boutiquen | boutiquejen boutiqueinrare | ||
| partitive | boutiquea | boutiqueja | ||
| inessive | boutiquessa | boutiqueissa | ||
| elative | boutiquesta | boutiqueista | ||
| illative | boutiqueen | boutiqueihin | ||
| adessive | boutiquella | boutiqueilla | ||
| ablative | boutiquelta | boutiqueilta | ||
| allative | boutiquelle | boutiqueille | ||
| essive | boutiquena | boutiqueina | ||
| translative | boutiqueksi | boutiqueiksi | ||
| abessive | boutiquetta | boutiqueitta | ||
| instructive | — | boutiquein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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French
boutique
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French boutique, borrowed from Old Occitan botica, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē). Doublet of bodéga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu.tik/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /bu.t͡sɪk/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: butik
- → Armenian: բուտիկ (butik)
- → Asturian: botica
- → Azerbaijani: butik
- → Czech: butik
- → Danish: butik
- → Dutch: boetiek
- → Indonesian: butik
- → English: boutique
- → Cebuano: botik
- → Estonian: butiik
- → Finnish: boutique
- → Galician: botica
- → German: Boutique (semantic loan)
- → Georgian: ბუტიკი (buṭiḳi)
- → Greek: μπουτίκ (boutík)
- → Hebrew: בוטיק (butik)
- → Hungarian: butik
- → Italian: boutique
- → Japanese: ブティック (butikku)
- → Korean: 부티크 (butikeu)
- → Luxembourgish: Buttek
- → Moore: bitga (“store, boutique”)
- → Moroccan Arabic: بوتيكة (butika)
- → Norwegian: butikk, boutique
- → Malay: butik
- → Persian: بوتیک (butik)
- → Picard: boutique
- → Polish: butik
- → Portuguese: botica, butique
- → Romanian: butic
- → Russian: бутик (butik)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: butik
- → Spanish: botica, boutique (see there for further descendants)
- → Swedish: butik
- → Finnish: putiikki
- → Turkish: butik
- → Ukrainian: бутик (butyk)
Further reading
- “boutique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buˈtik/[1]
- Rhymes: -ik
References
- boutique in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan botica.
Norman
Alternative forms
- bouotique (Cotentin)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan botica (or French boutique), from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “repository, storehouse”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Derived terms
- boutique à bottes (“shoe shop”)
- boutique à chucrîns (“sweet shop”)
- boutique à présents (“gift shop”)
- boutique à souv'nîns (“souvenir shop”)
- boutique d'habilements (“clothes shop”)
- boutiqu'sie (“shopping”)
- boutitchi (“to shop”)
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buˈtik/ [buˈt̪ik]
- Rhymes: -ik
Usage notes
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
- “boutique”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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