chopine
See also: chopiné
English
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reconstruction of a Venetian chopine
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French chapin, from Old Spanish chapín, from chapa (“plate”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tʃəʊˈpiːn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
chopine (plural chopines)
- A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
- (historical, footwear) A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], lines 364-365, page 263, column 2:
- Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]
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Further reading
chopine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Cophine, phocine
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɔ.pin/
Audio (file) Audio (CAN) (file)
Etymology 1
Doublet of chope
Noun
chopine f (plural chopines)
- (France, obsolete) a French pre-metric measure of capacity equal to half a pinte that was equivalent to 0.476 liters. Under the monarchy the measure varied from region to region, with the Parisian chopine being equivalent to 0.465 liters. 1 pinte ("quart") = 2 chopines ("pints") = 4 demiards ("half-pints")
- (France) a French metric chopine (or metric "pint") equal to 0.250 liters
- (Canada) a French Canadian term for an imperial pint, equal to one eighth of an Imperial gallon, 20 Imperial ounces, or 0.568 liters
- (France) an amount of wine equivalent to 0.25 liters
Noun
chopine f (plural chopines)
- (footwear) chopine (type of platform shoe)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
chopine
- inflection of chopiner:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “chopine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.