- bottle (n.)
- mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c.
- bottle (v.)
- 1640s, from bottle (n.). Related: Bottled; bottling.