buttress

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) bouterez, (deprecated template usage) bouteret, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *(deprecated template usage) botan, from Template:proto ( > English (deprecated template usage) beat).

Pronunciation

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Noun

Buttress tree roots

buttress (plural buttresses)

1. Template:architecture A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
2. Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
3. Template:botany A buttress-root.

Derived terms

• flying buttress

Synonyms

• counterfort

Translations

brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it

• Bulgarian: подпора f (podpora), опора (bg) (opora)
• Czech: opěrný pilíř m
• Dutch: stut m, steun (nl) m
• Finnish: tukipilari
• French: arcboutant (fr) m, arc-boutant (fr) m
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• German: Stützpfeiler (de) m, Strebepfeiler (de) m
• Italian: contrafforte m, contrafforti m
• Norwegian: støtte m or f
• Polish: przypora
• Russian: контрфорс (ru) m (kontrfors)
• Swedish: stötta

anything that serves to support something

• Armenian: նեցուկ (necʻuk), հենարան (henaran)
• Bulgarian: опора (bg) f (opora)
• Czech: opora f
• Dutch: stut m, steun (nl) m
• Finnish: tuki, tukipilari
• French: appui (fr) m
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• German: Stütze (de) m
• Italian: supporto m
• Norwegian: støtte m or f
• Russian: подпорка (ru) f (podporka), опора (ru) f (opora)
• Swedish: stötta

Verb

buttress (third-person singular simple present buttress, present participle es, simple past and past participle buttressed)

1. To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
2. To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.

Translations

support something physically with, or as if with, a buttress

• Bulgarian: подпирам (bg) (podpiram)
• Dutch: stutten, ondersteunen (nl)
• Finnish: tukea
• French: arcbouter (fr)
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• German: stützen (de), verstärken (de)
• Norwegian: støtte
• Swedish: stötta

support something or someone by supplying evidence

• Bulgarian: поддържам (poddǎržam)
• Dutch: ondersteunen (nl), onderbouwen
• Finnish: tukea
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• German: unterstützen (de)
• Norwegian: understøtte