vitrine

See also: Vitrine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /vɪˈtɹiːn/, /vəˈtɹiːn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

vitrine (plural vitrines)

1. A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.

   Synonyms: showcase, display case

   • 1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82:

     Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.

   • 1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256:

     The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo […]

   • 1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time:

     Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth.

Related terms

• vitreous

Translations

glass-paneled cabinet or case

• Belarusian: вітры́на f (vitrýna)
• Catalan: vitrina (ca) f, escaparat m
• Czech: vitrína (cs) f
• Danish: vitrineskab (da) n, vitrine (da) c
• Finnish: vitriini (fi)
• French: vitrine (fr) f
• German: Vitrine (de) f
• Greek: βιτρίνα (el) f (vitrína)
• Italian: vetrina (it) f
• Japanese: 飾り棚 (かざりだな, kazaridana)
• Ottoman Turkish: جامكان (camekân)
• Persian: ویترین (fa) (vitrin)
• Polish: witryna (pl) f
• Portuguese: vitrine (pt) f, vitrina f
• Romanian: vitrină (ro) f
• Russian: го́рка (ru) f (górka), витри́на (ru) f (vitrína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: витрина f

  Roman: vitrina (sh) f

• Spanish: vitrina (es) f
• Swedish: vitrinskåp (sv) n, vitrin (sv) c
• Ukrainian: вітри́на f (vitrýna)
• Welsh: cabined arddangos m, cabinedau arddangos m pl

Further reading

• Showcase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• inviter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌviˈtri.nə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne
• Rhymes: -inə

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)

1. vitrine, showcase
2. shop window

Related terms

• vitrage
• vitriool

French

La vitrine d'une fromagerie. The shop window of a cheese shop.

Etymology

From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). By surface analysis, vitre (“pane of glass”) +‎ -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.tʁin/

• audio

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Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window

   Synonym: devanture

   la vitrine d’une librairie ― the window of a bookstore

   décorer la vitrine ― to decorate the shop window

2. (by extension) shopping

   faire les vitrines, lécher les vitrines ― to go window-shopping

3. vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)

   les vitrines d’un musée ― the vitrines of a museum

Derived terms

• lèche-vitrine

Related terms

• vitrail

Descendants

• → Catalan: vitrina
• → Danish: vitrine
• → English: vitrine
• → Galician: vitrina
• → German: Vitrine
• → Greek: βιτρίνα (vitrína)
• → Portuguese: vitrine, vitrina
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin: vitrína
  • Cyrillic: витри́на
• → Spanish: vitrina
• → Swedish: vitrin

Further reading

• “vitrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• inviter

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vitrina

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈtɾĩ.ni/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈtɾĩ.ni/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /viˈtɾi.ne/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈtɾi.nɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /viˈtɾi.nɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /biˈtɾi.nɨ/

• Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)

   Synonym: montra