butter

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 See also 2 Swedish 2.1 Adjective

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Old English butere < a West Germanic borrowing of Latin butyrum < Greek βούτυρον boutyron (perhaps literally ‘cow-cheese’, from βούς bous ‘ox, cow’ + τυρός tyros ‘cheese’). The West Germanic source also gave Dutch boter, German Butter.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈbʌtə/, SAMPA: /"bVt.@/
• (US) enPR: bŭtʹər, IPA: /ˈbʌɾ.ɚ/, SAMPA: /"bV4.@`/

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  Rhymes: -ʌtə(r)

[edit] Noun

butter (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
2. (countable) (obsolete) (chemistry) Any specific soft substance
3. (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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[edit] Related terms

• butterfly
• butter-ham

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[edit] Verb

to butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.

   Butter the toast.

[edit] Derived terms

• buttered
• buttering
• 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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[edit] See also

• butyraceous
• ghee

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[edit] Adjective

Inflections of butter		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	butter	buttrare		buttrast
	Neuter	buttert
Definite singular	Masc.	buttre		buttraste
	All	buttra		buttraste
Plural		buttra		buttraste

butter

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