bute

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From its middle syllable.

Noun[edit]

bute (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

Anagrams[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Verb[edit]

bute

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

Anagrams[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

bute

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of bote (boot)

Middle Low German[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • büte

Etymology[edit]

Possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch *buute, *buete, from Old Dutch *būti, from Frankish *būti (exchange; allotment; spoils), perhaps borrowed from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (profit, gains; victory).

Noun[edit]

bûte f

  1. exchange, barter
  2. allotment
  3. plunder

Related terms[edit]

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

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle High German: biute
    • German: Beute
    • Yiddish: בײַטן (baytn)
    • Old Czech: bít, bíta[1]
  • Old Norse: býti n

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Tetelcingo Nahuatl[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bute (plural butejte)

  1. can, tin

References[edit]

  • Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 16, 111
  • Tuggy, David (2004), “Spanish Borrowings in Mösiehuali̱”, in SIL Mexico[2]

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

bute

  1. dative singular of but
  1. ^ Newerkla, Stefan Michael (2011), “bít, bíta”, in Sprachkontakte Deutsch – Tschechisch – Slowakisch: Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter im Tschechischen und Slowakischen: historische Entwicklung, Beleglage, bisherige und neue Deutungen (Schriften über Sprachen und Texte; 7) (in German), 2nd edition, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 155