chopine

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French chopine, diminutive of chope + -ine. Doublet of chopin. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /tʃəʊˈpiːn/ Rhymes: -iːn === 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. ==== See also ==== === Further reading === chopine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Cophine, phocine == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃɔ.pin/ === Etymology 1 === Diminutive of chope + -ine. ==== 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 === Etymology 2 === From Middle French chapin, from Old Spanish chapín. ==== 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