# bouquet
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boʊˈkeɪ/, /buːˈkeɪ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### Noun

bouquet (plural bouquets)
* A bunch of cut flowers.
    For my birthday I received two bouquets.
* A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
    Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.
** 2005, Mildred M. Jeffrey, Walking the Cliffs (page 10)
    Aunt Cass rearranged the bouquet of spoons in the little vase on the table.
* The scent of a particular wine.
    This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.
* The middle note of a perfume.
    The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.
* A compliment or expression of praise.
** 1977 August 20, Robert Etherington, “John Horne Burns and His Enemies”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 10:Since his early death in 1953, a cult, small and select, has grown up around him […] . This coterie maintains that Burns was a writer of near transcendent genius […] whose first novel received enormous bouquets from the critics but who was hounded to death by those same critics when they learned he was a fag.
* (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
* (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
* (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.

#### Derived terms

* bouquetlike
* bouquet of circles
* bouquet of spheres
* bouquets and brickbats
* fruit bouquet
* kitchen bouquet

#### See also

* bouquet garni
* nosegay
* corsage
* posy

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bukɛ/, [b̥uˈkʰɛ] or IPA: /buke/, [b̥uˈkʰe]

### Noun

bouquet c (singular definite bouqueten or bouquet'en, not used in plural form)
* bouquet (scent of wine)

#### Related terms

* buket

### Further reading

* “bouquet” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* boeket

### Etymology

Borrowed from French bouquet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈkɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bou‧quet

### Noun

bouquet n (plural bouquets, diminutive bouquetje n)
* aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

#### Derived terms

* bouquet garni
* bouquetreeks
* bouquetroman

### Further reading

* “bouquet” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

## Finnish
### Etymology

< French bouquet

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbukeː/, [ˈbuk̟e̞ː]
* IPA: /buˈkeː/
* Rhymes: -ukeː

### Noun

bouquet
* bouquet (scent of wine)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of bouquet (Kotus type 22/parfait, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
bouquet’ni
bouquet’ni
accusative
nom.
bouquet’ni
bouquet’ni
gen.
bouquet’ni
genitive
bouquet’ni
bouquet’ideni bouquet’itteni
partitive
bouquet’tani
bouquet’itani
inessive
bouquet’ssani
bouquet’issani
elative
bouquet’stani
bouquet’istani
illative
bouquet’heni
bouquet’ihini
adessive
bouquet’llani
bouquet’illani
ablative
bouquet’ltani
bouquet’iltani
allative
bouquet’lleni
bouquet’illeni
essive
bouquet’nani
bouquet’inani
translative
bouquet’kseni
bouquet’ikseni
abessive
bouquet’ttani
bouquet’ittani
instructive
comitative
—bouquet’ineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
bouquet’si
bouquet’si
accusative
nom.
bouquet’si
bouquet’si
gen.
bouquet’si
genitive
bouquet’si
bouquet’idesi bouquet’ittesi
partitive
bouquet’tasi
bouquet’itasi
inessive
bouquet’ssasi
bouquet’issasi
elative
bouquet’stasi
bouquet’istasi
illative
bouquet’hesi
bouquet’ihisi
adessive
bouquet’llasi
bouquet’illasi
ablative
bouquet’ltasi
bouquet’iltasi
allative
bouquet’llesi
bouquet’illesi
essive
bouquet’nasi
bouquet’inasi
translative
bouquet’ksesi
bouquet’iksesi
abessive
bouquet’ttasi
bouquet’ittasi
instructive
comitative
—bouquet’inesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
bouquet’mme
bouquet’mme
accusative
nom.
bouquet’mme
bouquet’mme
gen.
bouquet’mme
genitive
bouquet’mme
bouquet’idemme bouquet’ittemme
partitive
bouquet’tamme
bouquet’itamme
inessive
bouquet’ssamme
bouquet’issamme
elative
bouquet’stamme
bouquet’istamme
illative
bouquet’hemme
bouquet’ihimme
adessive
bouquet’llamme
bouquet’illamme
ablative
bouquet’ltamme
bouquet’iltamme
allative
bouquet’llemme
bouquet’illemme
essive
bouquet’namme
bouquet’inamme
translative
bouquet’ksemme
bouquet’iksemme
abessive
bouquet’ttamme
bouquet’ittamme
instructive
comitative
—bouquet’inemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
bouquet’nne
bouquet’nne
accusative
nom.
bouquet’nne
bouquet’nne
gen.
bouquet’nne
genitive
bouquet’nne
bouquet’idenne bouquet’ittenne
partitive
bouquet’tanne
bouquet’itanne
inessive
bouquet’ssanne
bouquet’issanne
elative
bouquet’stanne
bouquet’istanne
illative
bouquet’henne
bouquet’ihinne
adessive
bouquet’llanne
bouquet’illanne
ablative
bouquet’ltanne
bouquet’iltanne
allative
bouquet’llenne
bouquet’illenne
essive
bouquet’nanne
bouquet’inanne
translative
bouquet’ksenne
bouquet’iksenne
abessive
bouquet’ttanne
bouquet’ittanne
instructive
comitative
—bouquet’inenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
bouquet’nsa
bouquet’nsa
accusative
nom.
bouquet’nsa
bouquet’nsa
gen.
bouquet’nsa
genitive
bouquet’nsa
bouquet’idensa bouquet’ittensa
partitive
bouquet’taan bouquet’tansa
bouquet’itaan bouquet’itansa
inessive
bouquet’ssaan bouquet’ssansa
bouquet’issaan bouquet’issansa
elative
bouquet’staan bouquet’stansa
bouquet’istaan bouquet’istansa
illative
bouquet’hensa
bouquet’ihinsa
adessive
bouquet’llaan bouquet’llansa
bouquet’illaan bouquet’illansa
ablative
bouquet’ltaan bouquet’ltansa
bouquet’iltaan bouquet’iltansa
allative
bouquet’lleen bouquet’llensa
bouquet’illeen bouquet’illensa
essive
bouquet’naan bouquet’nansa
bouquet’inaan bouquet’inansa
translative
bouquet’kseen bouquet’ksensa
bouquet’ikseen bouquet’iksensa
abessive
bouquet’ttaan bouquet’ttansa
bouquet’ittaan bouquet’ittansa
instructive
comitative
—bouquet’ineen bouquet’inensa :

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French bochet, from bois (“woods”), from Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bu.kɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)
* bouquet, bunch
* a set or selection of something
* a group of trees forming a grove
* aroma, bouquet (scent of wine)

#### Derived terms

* bouquet garni

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: بَاقَة (bāqa)
* → Azerbaijani: buket
* → Catalan: buquet
* → Czech: buket
* → Danish: buket, bouquet
* → English: bouquet
* → Esperanto: bukedo
* → Finnish: bukee
* → German: Bouquet
* → Greek: μπουκέτο (boukéto)
* → Japanese: ブーケ (būke)
* → Macedonian: букет (buket)
* → Norwegian: bukett
* → Polish: bukiet
* → Portuguese: buquê, bouquet (unadapted form)
* → Romanian: buchet
* → Russian: буке́т (bukét)
* Serbo-Croatian:
** → Latin script: bùkēt
** → Cyrillic script: бу̀ке̄т
* → Spanish: buqué
* → Swedish: bukett
* → Turkish: buket

### Further reading

* “bouquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet.

### Noun

bouquet m (plural bouquets)
* Alternative form of buquê