emballage

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Italic *en

Proto-Italic *en-

Latin in-

Old French en-

French en-

French balle

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Old French -ier

Middle French -er

French -er

French emballer

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin -āticum

Old French -age

Middle French -age

French -age

French emballagebor.

English emballage

Borrowed from French emballage (“wrapping, packaging”).

Noun

emballage (plural emballages)

1. (art) An artwork having a motif of wrapping or concealment.

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: амбалàж m (ambalàž)
• Polish: ambalaż (pl) m

Danish

Etymology

From emballere (“to pack, wrap up”) +‎ -age, from French emballage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ambalaːsjə/, [ɑmb̥aˈlæːɕə] or IPA^(key): /ɛmbalaːsjə/, [ɛmb̥aˈlæːɕə]

Noun

emballage c (singular definite emballagen, plural indefinite emballager)

1. packaging (the materials used to pack something)
2. wrapping (the material in which something is wrapped)

Inflection

Declension of emballage

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emballage	emballagen	emballager	emballagerne
genitive	emballages	emballagens	emballagers	emballagernes

Synonyms

• emballering

Further reading

• emballage on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French emballage (“wrapping, packaging”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛm.bɑˈlaː.ʒə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːʒə
• Hyphenation: em‧bal‧la‧ge

Noun

emballage f (plural emballagen, diminutive emballagetje n)

1. packaging (the materials used to pack something)
2. wrapping (the material in which something is wrapped)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: embalase

French

Etymology

From emballer +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ba.laʒ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Somain)):

  (file)

Noun

emballage m (plural emballages)

1. wrapping (action of wrapping something up)
2. packaging (materials used for wrapping)

Descendants

• → Albanian: ambalazh
• → English: emballage
• → Greek: αμπαλάζ (ampaláz)
• → Ladino: ambalaje
• → Romanian: ambalaj
• → Turkish: ambalaj

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

emballage n

1. packaging (the materials used to pack something)
2. wrapping (the material in which something is wrapped)

Declension

Declension of emballage

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	emballage	emballages
	definite	emballaget	emballagets
plural	indefinite	emballage	emballages
	definite	emballagen	emballagens

References

• “emballage”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “emballage”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “emballage”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)