boutique

See also: Boutique

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of bodega and apothecary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːˈtiːk/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /boʊˈtik/
• Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

boutique (plural boutiques)

1. A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
2. A small shop located within a larger one.
3. (film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.
4. (often attributive) Any company specializing in bespoke or custom-made products or services for clientele in a niche market.

   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 […]

Descendants

• → Cebuano: botik

Translations

a small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like

• Arabic: بُوتِيك‎ m (būtīk)
• Armenian: բուտիկ (hy) (butik)
• Azerbaijani: butik
• Belarusian: буці́к m (bucík)
• Bulgarian: бути́к (bg) m (butík)
• Catalan: boutique f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 時裝店, 时装店 (shízhuāngdiàn), 精品店 (jīngpǐndiàn)

• Czech: butik (cs) m
• Dutch: boetiek (nl) f
• Estonian: butiik (et)
• Finnish: putiikki (fi)
• French: boutique (fr) f
• Georgian: ბუტიკი (buṭiḳi)
• German: Boutique (de) f
• Hebrew: בוטיק‎ (he) m (butík)
• Hungarian: butik (hu)
• Indonesian: butik (id)
• Italian: boutique (it) f

• Japanese: ブティック (ja) (butikku)
• Korean: 부티크 (butikeu)
• Lithuanian: butikas m
• Malay: butik (ms)
• Persian: بوتیک‎ (fa) (butik)
• Polish: butik (pl) m
• Portuguese: boutique (pt) f, butique (pt) f
• Romanian: butic (ro) n
• Russian: бути́к (ru) m (butík)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бу̀тик m

  Roman: bùtik (sh) m

• Slovak: butik (sk) m
• Slovene: butik m
• Spanish: boutique f
• Swedish: butik (sv)
• Turkish: butik (tr)
• Ukrainian: бути́к m (butýk)
• Vietnamese: cửa hàng thời trang

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French

boutique

Etymology

From Middle French boutique, borrowed from Old Occitan botica, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.tik/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /bu.t͡sɪk/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. (small) shop; boutique

Derived terms

• fermer boutique
• garder la boutique
• tenir la boutique

Descendants

• → Albanian: butik
• → Armenian: բուտիկ (butik)
• → Asturian: botica
• → Azerbaijani: butik
• → Czech: butik
• → Danish: butik
• → Dutch: boetiek
  • → Indonesian: butik
• → English: boutique
  • → Cebuano: botik
• → Estonian: butiik
• → Galician: botica
• → German: Boutique, Butike
• → 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, boutique
• → Romanian: butic
• → Russian: бутик (butik)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бутик

  Latin: butik

• → 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.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of bottega.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈtik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

boutique f (invariable)

1. boutique (shop)

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan botica.

Noun

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. shop (building where one can purchase items or services)

Descendants

• French: boutique (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: boutique, bouotique

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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)

Noun

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. (Jersey) shop

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”)

 

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• butique

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French boutique. Doublet of botica and bodega.

Noun

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. boutique (a small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewellery and the like)

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French boutique. Doublet of botica and bodega.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈtik/, [buˈt̪ik]

Noun

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. boutique

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