# vitrine
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /vɪˈtɹiːn/, /vəˈtɹiːn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

vitrine (plural vitrines)
* A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.
    Synonyms: showcase, display case
** 1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82:Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.
** 1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256:The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo […]
** 1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time:Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth.

#### Related terms

* vitreous

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Showcase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* inviter

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌviˈtri.nə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne
* Rhymes: -inə

### Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)
* vitrine, showcase
* shop window

#### Related terms

* vitrage
* vitriool

## French
### Etymology

From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). By surface analysis, vitre (“pane of glass”) +‎ -ine.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vi.tʁin/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)
* shop window
    Synonym: devanture
    la vitrine d’une librairie ― the window of a bookstore
    décorer la vitrine ― to decorate the shop window
* (by extension) shopping
    faire les vitrines, lécher les vitrines ― to go window-shopping
* vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)
    les vitrines d’un musée ― the vitrines of a museum

#### Derived terms

* lèche-vitrine

#### Related terms

* vitrail

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: vitrina
* → Danish: vitrine
* → English: vitrine
* → Galician: vitrina
* → German: Vitrine
* → Greek: βιτρίνα (vitrína)
* → Ladino: vitrina
* → Portuguese: vitrine, vitrina
* → Russian: витрина (vitrina)
** → Azerbaijani: vitrin
** → Georgian: ვიტრინა (viṭrina)
** → Uzbek: vitrina
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Latin: vitrína
** Cyrillic: витри́на
* → Spanish: vitrina
* → Persian: ویترین (vitrin)
* → Swedish: vitrin

### Further reading

* “vitrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

### Anagrams

* inviter

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* vitrina

### Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /viˈtɾĩ.ni/
* (Brazil) IPA: /viˈtɾĩ.ni/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /viˈtɾi.ne/
* (Portugal) IPA: /viˈtɾi.nɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /viˈtɾi.nɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /biˈtɾi.nɨ/
* Hyphenation: vi‧tri‧ne

### Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)
* shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)
    Synonym: montra