butter
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- enPR: bŭtʹ-ər, IPA: /ˈbʌ.təɹ/, X-SAMPA: /"bV.t@r\/
- (some Northern England accents) IPA: /ˈbʊ.tə/
- Rhymes: -ʊtə(r)
- Hyphenation: but‧ter
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English butere (“butter”), from West Germanic *buterô (“butter”) (compare West Frisian buter, Dutch boter, German Butter), from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútȳron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tyrós, “cheese”), from Scythian (compare Avestan (tūiri, “curdled milk, whey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHrós (compare Middle Indic tūra (“cheese”), Russian творог (tvoróg, “curds, soft cheese”), Old English þweran (“to churn”), ge-þweor (“curds”))
Noun [edit]
butter (usually uncountable; plural butters)
- (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (countable, obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
- (uncountable) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- peanut butter
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Verb [edit]
butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- Butter the toast.
- To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
Derived terms [edit]
- butter one's bread on both sides
- butter the cony
- butter up
- fine words butter no parsnips
- have one's bread buttered for life
- know which side one's bread is buttered
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
butter (plural butters)
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From butte.
Verb [edit]
butter
- To heap
- butter les pommes de terre.
Conjugation [edit]
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | butter | avoir butté | |||||
| gerund | en buttant | en ayant butté | |||||
| present participle | buttant | ||||||
| past participle | butté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | butte | buttes | butte | buttons | buttez | buttent |
| imperfect | buttais | buttais | buttait | buttions | buttiez | buttaient | |
| past historic1 | buttai | buttas | butta | buttâmes | buttâtes | buttèrent | |
| future | butterai | butteras | buttera | butterons | butterez | butteront | |
| conditional | butterais | butterais | butterait | butterions | butteriez | butteraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | butte | buttes | butte | buttions | buttiez | buttent |
| imperfect1 | buttasse | buttasses | buttât | buttassions | buttassiez | buttassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | butte | — | buttons | buttez | — | ||
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Swedish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)
Declension [edit]
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from West Germanic languages
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
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- English verbs
- English words suffixed with -er
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- French verbs
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- Swedish adjectives