What are the differences between botella and frasco?

Question

What are the differences between botella and frasco?

Are they the same? Both mean bottle? Or any differences?

Answer 1

I don't think it is a matter of size, but the size of the neck, which are longer than in "botellas" than "frascos", which don't even need one.

longer in botellas than frascos, right? - KevinB, Jan 20, 2011

Yep. - lazarus1907, Jan 20, 2011

this is new info to me. - jeezzle, Jan 20, 2011

Answer 2

Frasco is a small bottle. A flask is good way to think of it. Like a perfume bottle or a little bottle of liquor that is really small like a shot sized. Botella is just a bottle like a beer bottle.

Why do you think "frasco" and "flask" sound so similar? - lazarus1907, Jan 20, 2011

they are both little. - jeezzle, Jan 20, 2011

Answer 3

I'd translate "botella" as bottle or flask, and "frasco" as jar.

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Actually, Kevin's point of view is also correct. I'm not entirely sure how to reconcile his concepts and mine, because thinking about it, I use the term "frasco" rather indistincly for small perfum bottles and larger canned food jars.... -

Frascos:

Frascos:

Actually, I just learned 'frasco' pretty recently while reading a book where people were buying perfume in a jabonería, so that's probably just one use of the word. - KevinB, Jan 20, 2011

Answer 4

It's a matter of size. Beer comes in botellas, perfume comes in frascos. Well, good perfume comes in frascos. Cheap perfume sometimes comes in jarras.

Botella:

Frasco:

Jarra:

Answer 5

Hi zhmelissa,

Check this thread it will help you a lot La Palabra del Día : el frasco

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Frasco is a very small container, like for perfume, medicines... write frasco into google images and see the difference to botella

Here are some examples: