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buttare
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Italian
Etymology
From Old French bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin. Compare Neapolitan vottare and Sicilian vottare.
Pronunciation
Verb
buttàre (first-person singular present bùtto, first-person singular past historic buttài, past participle buttàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)
- (transitive) to throw, to toss, to fling, to chuck, to sling
- 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- Là giù ’l buttò, e per lo scoglio duro ¶ si volse; e mai non fu mastino sciolto ¶ con tanta fretta a seguitar lo furo.
- He hurled him down, and over the hard crag turned round, and never was a mastiff loosened in so much hurry to pursue a thief.
- (transitive) to spout, to spurt, to pour, to discharge
- Synonyms: perdere, zampillare
- (transitive) to throw about, to waste
- Synonyms: sprecare, germogliare
- (transitive) to put out, to sprout, to shoot
- (transitive) to beat in
- (transitive) to put (the pasta) in boiling water
- (intransitive) to tend [with a ‘towards something’] [auxiliary essere]
- l'arancio butta al rosso ― the orange [color] tends towards red
- (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly) [auxiliary essere]
- (vulgar, slang) in the form "buttarlo" (to throw it): to penetrate sexually
Conjugation
1Transitive.
2Intransitive.
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