tupperware

== English == === Noun === tupperware (countable and uncountable, plural tupperwares or tupperware) (uncommon) Alternative form of Tupperware. For quotations using this term, see Citations:tupperware. ==== Translations ==== == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English tupperware. Genericized trademark of the American company Tupperware. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ty.pə.ʁwaʁ/ (France) IPA(key): /tɔ.pœ.ʁwɛʁ/ (Canada) Hyphenation: tup‧per‧ware === Noun === tupperware m (plural tupperwares) Tupperware (a plastic food-storage container) == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === tapoer, taparuere tapauer, tapaué, teipuer (eye dialect) === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English tupperware. Genericized trademark of the American company Tupperware. === Pronunciation === === Noun === tupperware m or (Brazil, also) f (plural tupperwares) Tupperware (a plastic food-storage container) === Further reading === “tupperware”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English tupperware. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtapeɾw̝eɾ/ [ˈt̪a.peɾ.w̝eɾ], /ˈtapeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪a.peɾ.weɾ], /ˈtapeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪a.pe.ɾweɾ] Rhymes: -apeɾw̝eɾ, -apeɾweɾ IPA(key): /ˈtopeɾw̝eɾ/ [ˈt̪o.peɾ.w̝eɾ], /ˈtopeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪o.peɾ.weɾ], /ˈtopeɾweɾ/ [ˈt̪o.pe.ɾweɾ] Rhymes: -opeɾw̝eɾ, -opeɾweɾ IPA(key): /tuppeɾˈw̝aɾe/ [t̪up̚.perˈw̝a.ɾe] Rhymes: -aɾe Syllabification: tup‧per‧wa‧re === Noun === tupperware m (plural tupperwares) alternative form of Tupperware ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. === Further reading === Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “tupperware”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA