butin

French

Etymology

From Old French butin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.tɛ̃/

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Noun

butin m (plural butins)

1. loot, booty (the proceeds of theft, robbery etc., swag, contraband)

Descendants

• → Breton: butin

Further reading

• “butin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• botin

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *boudinus, from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”), or perhaps from Vulgar Latin *būtinus, from Frankish *būti, possibly also from Gaulish.

Noun

butin oblique singular, m (oblique plural butins, nominative singular butins, nominative plural butin)

1. spoils, plunder, booty
2. allotment

Derived terms

• butiner
  • Middle French: butiner
    • French: butiner
  • → Middle Dutch: butineren

Descendants

• Middle French: butin
  • French: butin
    • → Breton: butin
• → Middle English: bottyne, botye, buty
  • English: booty, bootyn

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (butin, supplement)
• Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology

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Venetian

Alternative forms

• butìn

Noun

butin m (plural butini)

1. child