B1🔤 Letters B & C
Italian word
botte
a barrel or cask (for wine); also blows/beatings (plural, colloquial)
Looks like
bottle
a container with a neck for liquids
⚠️ The trap
Botte (barrel) looks like 'bottle' but they are very different containers. A wine bottle is 'bottiglia'. 'Prendere le botte' colloquially means to get beaten up — nothing to do with bottles.
To say "a container with a neck for liquids" in Italian:
bottiglia (bottle); botte (barrel)
"botte" in English means:
a barrel or cask (for wine); also blows/beatings (plural, colloquial)
Example
"Il vino matura nella botte per due anni."
"The wine matures in the barrel for two years."
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