boîte

• boite (post-1990 spelling)

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.

• IPA^(key): /bwat/ ~ /bwɑt/

  • Audio (France); “une boîte” [yn bwat]:

    (file)

  • Audio (Quebec); [bwɑːt]:

    (file)

• IPA^(key): /bwɛːt/ (Canada, colloquial or dated)

  • Audio (Quebec, Gaspésie); [bwaɛ̯t]:

    (file)

boîte f (plural boîtes)

1. box (a container)
2. tin, can
3. (colloquial) ellipsis of boîte de nuit (“club, nightclub”)

   Synonym: discothèque

4. (colloquial) company, employer

   Synonym: entreprise

French terms starting with “boîte”

• emboîter

• caisson m

• “boîte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• obéit, obéît
• Tobie

Unadapted borrowing from French boîte.

boîte f (plural boîtes)

1. alternative form of boate

• “boîte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Unadapted borrowing from French boîte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbwat/ [ˈbwat̪]
• Rhymes: -at

boîte f (plural boîtes)

1. nightclub

   Synonyms: antro, club nocturno

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.

• “boîte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024