"boîte" meaning in French

See boîte in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /bwat/, /bwɑt/, /bwɛːt/ Audio: Fr-boîte.ogg , Qc-boîte.ogg , FR-boîte (Gaspésie).ogg Forms: boîtes [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|boiste|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French boiste, {{inh+|fr|fro|boiste}} Inherited from Old French boiste, {{inh|fr|VL.|*buxita}} Vulgar Latin *buxita, {{inh|fr|LL.|buxis}} Late Latin buxis, {{inh|fr|la|pyxis||small box}} Latin pyxis (“small box”), {{doublet|fr|box}} Doublet of box Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} boîte f (plural boîtes)
  1. box (the container) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-boîte-fr-noun-YTfl2W3X
  2. tin, can Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-boîte-fr-noun-UwpVOTg-
  3. (colloquial) Ellipsis of boîte de nuit.: club, nightclub Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, ellipsis, feminine Alternative form of: boîte de nuit (extra: club, nightclub) Categories (topical): Containers Synonyms: discothèque
    Sense id: en-boîte-fr-noun--whwv7sq Disambiguation of Containers: 26 28 41 5 Categories (other): French ellipses, French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 8 8 76 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 14 14 58 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 14 14 57 14
  4. (informal) company, employer Tags: feminine, informal Synonyms: entreprise
    Sense id: en-boîte-fr-noun-LtqLY-Sh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: boite (english: post-1990 spelling) Related terms: emboîter, caisson [masculine]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte à gants"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte à musique"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte à outils"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "word": "boîte aux lettres"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte de conserve"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte de Pandore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte de Pétri"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "boîte de réception"
    },
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      "word": "boîte de vitesse"
    },
    {
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      "word": "boîte d’allumettes"
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    {
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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        "(informal) company, employer"
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        "informal"
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      "ipa": "/bwɑt/"
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      "ipa": "/bwɛːt/"
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    "French terms derived from Late Latin",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
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    "French terms derived from Vulgar Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Late Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Old French",
    "French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
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      "word": "boîte à camembert"
    },
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      "word": "boîte à cigare"
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    {
      "word": "boîte à gants"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte à musique"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte à outils"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte à suggestions"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte automatique"
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    {
      "word": "boîte aux lettres"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte crânienne"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte CVT"
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    {
      "word": "boîte de conserve"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de conserves"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de dépôt"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de nuit"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de Pandore"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de Pétri"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de réception"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte de vitesse"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte d’allumettes"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte manuelle"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte noire"
    },
    {
      "word": "boîte postale"
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    {
      "word": "boîtelette"
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          "employer"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) company, employer"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "entreprise"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bwat/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bwɑt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-boîte.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/Fr-bo%C3%AEte.ogg/Fr-bo%C3%AEte.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Fr-bo%C3%AEte.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Qc-boîte.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/Qc-bo%C3%AEte.ogg/Qc-bo%C3%AEte.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Qc-bo%C3%AEte.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bwɛːt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "FR-boîte (Gaspésie).ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1c/FR-bo%C3%AEte_%28Gasp%C3%A9sie%29.ogg/FR-bo%C3%AEte_%28Gasp%C3%A9sie%29.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/FR-bo%C3%AEte_%28Gasp%C3%A9sie%29.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "post-1990 spelling",
      "word": "boite"
    }
  ],
  "word": "boîte"
}

Download raw JSONL data for boîte meaning in French (5.7kB)

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  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "boîte"
  ],
  "section": "French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "boîte",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 3"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "boîte"
  ],
  "section": "French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "boîte",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "page/2196",
  "msg": "parse_linkage_recurse unhandled NodeKind.URL: <URL(['https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:%7B%7Blangname%7Cfr%7D%7D+lemmas&from=bo%C3%AEte#mw-pages'], ['French terms starting with “boîte”']){} >",
  "path": [
    "boîte"
  ],
  "section": "French",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "boîte",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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