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Where does “butelja” come from?

butelja (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian bottiglia, from French bouteille, from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula.

butelja (Serbo-Croatian): bottle

Definitions

  1. bottle

Ancestry of “butelja”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianbottigliabottle
2Frenchbouteillebottle
3Old Frenchboteille—
4Late Latinbutticula—
Every word from Late Latin butticula →