Today's
WOTD is: "botella" = bottle
1.
In Spanish, “botella”
is a feminine noun of French/ Latin origin, the main meaning of which
is bottle*,
as in:
- El agua se vende en botellas de plástico (water is sold in plastic bottles);
- Anoche nos tomamos dos botellas de vino tinto (last night we drank two bottles of red wine);
*NB The word “botella”
is not commonly used to refer to a baby's bottle in Spanish. A
baby's bottle is better known as a “biberón”.
2. A related word is the action word/ verb “embotellar”,
the main meaning of which is to bottle,
as in:
- En esta planta embotellamos agua (we bottle water in this plant);
3.
Also related is the describing word/ adjective “embotellado”/
“embotellada”,
which means bottled,
as in:
- Se vende agua embotellada (bottled water for sale);
4.
Some expressions in Spanish with the word “botella”
are:
- Botella de barro (clay/ earthenware bottle);
- Botella de cristal (glass bottle);
- Botella de plástico (plastic bottle);
- Botella de vidrio (glass bottle);
- Cuello de botella (bottleneck);
- No es soplar y hacer botellas (colloquial expression meaning that something is harder than it looks/ it appears);
Love-Spanish.com
loves the word "botella" in the YouTube clip: Zion yLennox - La Botella
*NB
'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “botella”
in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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