échoppe

From Middle French échoppe, from Old French eschope, escope, from Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, from Old Dutch *scoppa, from Proto-Germanic *skup- (“shed, stall”). Cognate with German Schupfen, Schuppen (“shed”), Dutch schop (“barn, shack”), English shop. More at shop.

• IPA^(key): /e.ʃɔp/

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échoppe f (plural échoppes)

1. stall, booth, small shop

From Old French eschople < eschaupre, eschalpre, from Latin scalprum. Compare Spanish escoplo, Portuguese escopro.

échoppe f (plural échoppes)

1. a type of chisel with a flat or rounded side used by engravers to efface

• “échoppe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).