bute

See also: Bute, buté, būte, būtė, butë, büte, butę, and буте

English

Etymology

From its middle syllable.

Noun

bute (uncountable)

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

Anagrams

• Tube, tube, Tebu, -Tube

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

Verb

bute

1. inflection of buter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• tube, tubé

Middle English

Noun

bute

1. (Northern) alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• büte

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch *buute, *buete, from Old Dutch *būti (“exchange; allotment; spoils”), perhaps borrowed from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

bûte f

1. exchange, barter
2. allotment
3. plunder

Related terms

• bûten (“to barter; to divide up; to plunder”)

Descendants

• → Middle High German: biute
  • German: Beute
  • Yiddish: בײַטן (baytn)
  • → Old Czech: bít, bíta^[1]
    • Early Modern Czech: bít, bíta
• → Old Norse: býti n
  • Icelandic: býti
  • Swedish: byte
  • Old Danish: bythæ
    • Danish: bytte

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin buttis, probably of Ancient Greek origin.

Noun

bute f (plural buți)

1. (rare, regional) barrel, cask; contents of a barrel

   Synonyms: butoi, putină

2. pillar that supports the structure of a tunnel, such as in a mine

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bute	butea		buți	buțile
genitive-dative	buți	buții		buți	buților
vocative	bute, buteo			buților

Derived terms

• butar
• butoi

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈβute]

Noun

bute (plural butejte)

1. can, tin

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962), Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano; Secretaría de Educación Pública, published 1971, pages 16, 111
• Tuggy, David (2004), “Spanish Borrowings in Mösiehuali̱”, in SIL Mexico‎