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Alternative forms

  • būtūrum

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally cow cheese).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    būtȳrum n (genitive būtȳrī); second declension

    1. butter
    2. (alchemy) chemicals with butter-like consistency, mostly chloride salts
      butyrum antimoniiSbCl3
      butyrum arseniciK3AsO4
      butyrum zinciZnCl2

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    Descendants

    • From bútyrum (per the Greek accentuation):
      • Aragonese: buro
      • Occitan: burre, bóder
      • Old Catalan: bori
      • Franco-Provençal: burro
      • Old French: bure (see there for further descendants)
      • Old Occitan: buire
      • Proto-West Germanic: *buterā (see there for further descendants)
    • 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:
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