bottiglia Italian · revision 38473

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1362–1365, Tuscan document|origins=la buttis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /botˈtiʎ.ʎa/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bottiglia''' ''f'' (plural bottiglie)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|bouteille]], from [[la-lat|butticula|t=small cask]], a diminutive of [[m|la-lat|buttis|t=cask]], the source of [[botte]].^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)^(REW 1935)^(DEI|576) Nocentini reconstructs [[la-vul|*butticula|alt=*bŭttīcŭla]] with a long /iː/.^(Nocentini 2010) The Latin word is recorded as [[m|la-lat|buticula]] in an early medieval medical text and in Carolingian charters, as [[m|la-lat|puticla]] in the Kassel Glosses, and as [[m|la-lat|botilia]] in an 8th-century parody of the Salic Law.^(Nocentini 2010)^(LEI)^(DELI 1999)^(Wiktionary) The Gallo-Romance forms, [[fro|botaille]] and [[pro|botelha]], need a short /i/, while those of Italy and Spain, such as [[es|botija|t=earthenware jar]], need a long one;^(LEI)^(Nocentini 2010) Nocentini explains the Florentine stress on the /i/ by a change of suffix.^(LEI)^(Nocentini 2010) The word first meant a wooden vessel; the sense “glass bottle” arose in northern France and spread from there in the late Middle Ages.^(LEI)^(DEI|576) From French also came [[es|botella]], [[pt|botelha]] and [[en|bottle]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|576)^(REW 1935)

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+ Zaccaria derived the Italian word from [[es|botilla|t=wine flask]] instead, and Devoto and Treccani follow him;^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto 1968)^(Treccani 2011)^(Prati 1951) DELI thinks a direct Spanish influence cannot be ruled out, while Prati rejected it.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto 1968)^(Treccani 2011)^(Prati 1951)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLIO's first record is a Tuscan document of 1362–1365, with the form ''botiglie'', for a cylindrical vessel holding liquids.^(TLIO) DELI starts from Annibal Caro, before 1566: “Come on, champions of beds and bottles” (''Or via, campioni / da letti e da bottiglie'').^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) The derivative ''bottigliere'' “cellarer, butler”, from French ''bouteiller'', is older, from the 14th century.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Florio's dictionary of 1598 has both ''botteglia'' and ''bottiglia'', and Scipione Maffei still wrote ''botteglie'' in 1747, with the vowel of the French model.^(DELI 1999) ''Bottiglione'' is in Florio (1598), and ''bottiglieria'' meant a wine cellar in Vasari (1550) before it became a shop selling wine and spirits (1818).^(DELI 1999) From the vessel the word passed to its contents, as in Parini's ''l'Ongarese bottiglia'', the bottle of Hungarian wine.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(GDLI)

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+ Modern phrases include ''bottiglia Molotov'' (1950), ''verde bottiglia'' “bottle green”, and ''collo di bottiglia'', a narrowing of a road and, translating English ''bottleneck'', an obstacle in production.^(DELI 1999)^(Treccani 2011)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) Italian ''bottiglia'' was borrowed into Greek, Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 8th century – Latin ''botilia'' appears in a parody of the Salic Law.^(DELI 1999)^(LEI)

+ * 14th century – ''Bottigliere'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1362–1365 – A Tuscan document has ''botiglie''.^(TLIO)

+ * 1550 – Vasari uses ''bottiglieria'' for a wine cellar.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1566 – Annibal Caro uses ''bottiglie''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1598 – Florio records ''botteglia'', ''bottiglia'' and ''bottiglione''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1818 – ''Bottiglieria'' is recorded as a wine shop.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1950 – ''Bottiglia Molotov'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|bottle]]: a container of glass, plastic or other material, usually cylindrical with a narrow neck, for liquids: ''Ricordati di mettere in frigo una bottiglia d'acqua frizzante.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # The contents of a bottle: ''In quattro abbiamo finito due bottiglie di rosso.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(physics, chemistry)'' A vessel of various shapes used in science: ''bottiglia di Leida'', the Leyden jar.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(invariable, after a noun)'' In ''verde bottiglia'': bottle green.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[bottigliata]]

+ * [[bottigliera]]

+ * [[bottigliere]]

+ * [[bottiglieria]]

+ * [[bottiglione]]

+ * [[imbottigliare]]

+ * [[imbottigliamento]]

+ * [[sottobottiglia]]

+ * [[bottiglietta]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[botte]]

+ * [[fr|bouteille]]

+ * [[en|bottle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}