buttis

Latin

Alternative forms

• būtis, butta, būta, bōta

Etymology

Found in Late Latin. Probably via Greek (compare Ancient Greek πυτίνη (putínē, “flask”) and βοῦττις (boûttis), ultimately from the imitative Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”). Also see German Bütte, Latin bulla.

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Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbut.tis/, [ˈbʊt̪ːɪs̠]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbut.tis/, [ˈbut̪ːis]

Noun

buttis f (genitive buttis); third declension

1. cask, barrel

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	buttis	buttēs
Genitive	buttis	buttium
Dative	buttī	buttibus
Accusative	buttem	buttēs buttīs
Ablative	butte	buttibus
Vocative	buttis	buttēs

Derived terms

• butticula
• buttia

Descendants

• Romanian: bute, butoi
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: botte
  • Sicilian: vutti
• Old French: boute
  • → Irish: buta
  • → Old English: bytt, byt
    • Middle English: bit, bitte, bytte, butte
      • English: butt
• Old Occitan: bota
  • Catalan: bot
  • → French: botte
• West Iberian
  • Galician: bota
  • Spanish: boto, bota

Borrowings

• Albanian: but
• Serbo-Croatian: буцањ / bucanj
• Slovene: búča

Further reading

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 749