Etymology

boutique

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Today it means: A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like. Full definition →

French boutique ← Middle French boutique ← Old Occitan botica
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Hellenic*apó
  4. Ancient Greekᾰ̓πό (ăpó)
  5. Ancient Greekᾰ̓πο- (ăpo-)
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰédʰeh₁ti
  8. Ancient Greekτίθημι (títhēmi)
  9. Ancient Greekἀποτίθημι (apotíthēmi)
  10. Ancient Greekἀποθήκη (apothḗkē)
  11. Latinapothēca
  12. Old Occitanbotica
  13. Middle Frenchboutique
  14. Frenchboutique
  15. English todayboutique

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of apotheke and bodega.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.