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butyrum
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Latin
Alternative forms
- būtūrum
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [buːˈtyː.rũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [buˈt̪iː.rum]
- (Late Latin Greek accent variant) IPA(key): [ˈbuː.tyː.rũː]
Noun
būtȳrum n (genitive būtȳrī); second declension
- butter
- (alchemy) chemicals with butter-like consistency, mostly chloride salts
- butyrum antimonii ― SbCl3
- butyrum arsenici ― K3AsO4
- butyrum zinci ― ZnCl2
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
- From bútyrum (per the Greek accentuation):
- From butýrum:
References
- “butyrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “butyrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “butyrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “butyrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- For various descendants:
- “bori” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “butyrum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 108
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 663
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