échoppe
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French échoppe, from Old French eschope, escope, from Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, from Old Dutch *scoppa, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (“shed, stall”). Cognate with German Schupfen, Schuppen (“shed”), Dutch schop (“barn, shack”), English shop. More at shop.
Noun
échoppe f (plural échoppes)
- stall, booth, small shop
- 1998, Michel Houellebecq, Les particules élémentaires, page 150; republished as Frank Wynne, transl., Atomised, 2001:
- Bruno commença à manger. Il se stabilisa rapidement autour d’un parcours alimentaire qui descendait le boulevard Saint-Michel. D’abord il commençait par un hot-dog, dans l’échoppe au croisement de la rue Gay-Lussac; […]
- He started to eat. His diet quickly settled into a nutritious trip down the Boulevard Saint-Michel. He would start with a hot dog from the takeaway on the corner of the rue Gay-Lussac;
Etymology 2
From Old French eschople < eschaupre, eschalpre, from Latin scalprum. Compare Spanish escoplo, Portuguese escopro.
Noun
échoppe f (plural échoppes)
Further reading
- “échoppe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.