Bottle
late Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask, wineskin’ (see butt4).
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From Middle English botel(“bottle, flask, wineskin”), from Old French boteille (Modern French bouteille), from Medieval Latin butticula, ultimately of disputed origin. Probably a diminutive of Late Latin buttis. Compare also Low German Buddel and Old High German būtil (whence German Beutel). Doublet of botija.
From Middle English bottle, botel, buttle, from Old English botl, bold(“abode, house, dwelling-place”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōþl, from Proto-Germanic *budlą, *buþlą, *bōþlą(“house, dwelling, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw-(literally “to swell, grow, thrive, be, live, dwell”).
Cognate with North Frisian budel, bodel, bol, boel(“dwelling, inheritable property”), Dutch boedel, boel(“inheritance, estate”), Danish bol(“farm”), Icelandic ból(“dwelling, abode, farm, lair”). Related to Old English byldan(“to build, construct”). More at build.
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bottle (n.)
"narrow-necked hollow vessel for holding and carrying liquids," mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin *butticula (source also of Spanish botella, Italian bottiglia), diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek.
In reference to a baby's feeding bottle by 1848 (sucking-bottle is attested from 1844). The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c. Bottle-washer is from 1837; bottle-shop is from 1929; bottle-opener as a mechanical device is from 1875. Bottle-arsed was old printers' slang for type wider at one end than the other.
bottle (v.)
1640s, "put into a bottle for storing and keeping," from bottle (n.). Earlier in a figurative sense, of feelings, etc., 1620s. Related: Bottled; bottling.
