échoppe

French

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French échoppe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French eschope, escope, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch *scoppa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *skup- (“shed, stall”). Cognate with German Schupfen, Schuppen (“shed”), Dutch schop (“barn, shack”), English shop. More at shop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ʃɔp/

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Noun

échoppe f (plural échoppes)

1. stall, booth, small shop

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French eschople < eschaupre, eschalpre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin scalprum. Compare Spanish escoplo, Portuguese escopro.

Noun

échoppe f (plural échoppes)

1. a type of chisel with a flat or rounded side used by engravers to efface

Further reading

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