etui

See also: Etui and étui

English

Noun

etui (plural etuis)

1. Alternative spelling of étui.

Anagrams

• Tieu

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French étui, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French estui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eːˈtʋi/, [eˈtʋi]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: etui
• Rhymes: -i

Noun

etui n (plural etuis, diminutive etuitje n)

1. an étui; a case or sturdy bag for storing one or more small objects, especially a pencil case

   Synonyms: pennenzak, foedraal, koker

Derived terms

• brillenetui
• pijpetui

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old French estui

Middle French étui

French étuibor.

Polish etui

Borrowed from French étui, from Middle French étui, from Old French estui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈtu.i/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification: e‧tu‧i

Noun

etui n (indeclinable)

1. case (container for a collection of items packaged together)

Further reading

• “etui”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “etui”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French étui.

Noun

etui n (plural etuiuri)

1. case, holster

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	etui	etuiul	etuiuri	etuiurile
genitive-dative	etui	etuiului	etuiuri	etuiurilor
vocative	etuiule		etuiurilor

Swedish

ett cigarettetui [a cigarette case]

ett glasögonetui [a glasses case] [more commonly called a glasögonfodral]

Etymology

Borrowed from French étui.

Noun

etui n

1. a (finer) hard case or (small) box (for pens, cigarettes, glasses, a viola, or various other items)

Declension

Declension of etui

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	etui	etuis
	definite	etuiet	etuiets
plural	indefinite	etuier	etuiers
	definite	etuierna	etuiernas

Declension of etui

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	etui	etuis
	definite	etuiet	etuiets
plural	indefinite	etuin	etuins
	definite	etuina	etuinas

See also

• fodral
• necessär
• skal

References

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