bottler

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈbɑtlər/ UK /ˈbɒtlə/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
a person or machine that bottles liquids; Australian slang for something excellent

The bottler filled three hundred jars an hour.

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Synonyms

1 noun · a person or machine that... packager

Word family

Related forms bottle

Etymology

From bottle + -er, denoting one who or that which puts liquids into bottles. Bottle is from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula ('small cask'), diminutive of buttis ('cask').

butticula Latin buttis Latin

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People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives Register & Style

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# bottler

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈbɑtlər/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈbɒtlə/

## Meanings
1. a person or machine that bottles liquids; Australian slang for something excellent

## Examples
- The bottler filled three hundred jars an hour.

## Synonyms
- packager

## Related Forms
- bottle

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: butticula
- Root: buttis

## Etymology
From bottle + -er, denoting one who or that which puts liquids into bottles. Bottle is from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula ('small cask'), diminutive of buttis ('cask').

## AI Etymology
Bottler comes from bottle + -er, denoting one who or that which puts liquids into bottles. Bottle is from Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula ('small cask'), diminutive of buttis ('cask'). The historical trail runs through butticula in Latin and buttis in Latin. Morphologically, bottler is transparent: it draws on bottle + -er, denoting one who or that which puts liquids into bottles. Used as a noun, bottler now means "a person or machine that bottles liquids; Australian slang for something excellent", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as bottle. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives
- Register & Style

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