butter
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See also: Butter
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- enPR: bŭtʹ-ər, IPA(key): /ˈbʌ.təɹ/
- (Northern and Midland England, Wales, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈbʊ.tə/
- Rhymes: -ʊtə(r)
- Hyphenation: but‧ter
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English, from Old English butere (“butter”), from Proto-Germanic *buterǭ (“butter”) (compare West Frisian buter, Dutch boter, German Butter), from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”), from Scythian.
Compare Avestan 𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬏𐬙 (tūiri, “curdled milk, whey”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tuHrós (compare Middle Indic [script needed] (tūra, “cheese”), Russian творо́г (tvoróg, “curds, soft cheese”), Old English þweran (“to churn”), geþweor (“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.
- butter of antimony
- (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
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from butter (noun)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
soft foodstuff made from milk
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other foodstuffs like 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.
- (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from butter
Translations[edit]
to spread butter on — See also translations at : spread, butter
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See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
butter (plural butters)
- Someone who butts, or who butts in.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
- […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.
- 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From butte.
Verb[edit]
butter
- to heap
- butter les pommes de terre.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of butter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | butter | avoir butté | |||||
| gerund | en buttant | en ayant butté | |||||
| present participle | buttant /by.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | butté /by.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | butte /byt/ |
buttes /byt/ |
butte /byt/ |
buttons /by.tɔ̃/ |
buttez /by.te/ |
buttent /byt/ |
| imperfect | buttais /by.tɛ/ |
buttais /by.tɛ/ |
buttait /by.tɛ/ |
buttions /by.tjɔ̃/ |
buttiez /by.tje/ |
buttaient /by.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | buttai /by.te/ |
buttas /by.ta/ |
butta /by.ta/ |
buttâmes /by.tam/ |
buttâtes /by.tat/ |
buttèrent /by.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | butterai /by.t(ə).ʁe/ |
butteras /by.t(ə).ʁa/ |
buttera /by.t(ə).ʁa/ |
butterons /by.t(ə).ʁɔ̃/ |
butterez /by.t(ə).ʁe/ |
butteront /by.t(ə).ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | butterais /by.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
butterais /by.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
butterait /by.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
butterions /by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
butteriez /by.tə.ʁje/ |
butteraient /by.t(ə).ʁɛ/ |
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| 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 /byt/ |
buttes /byt/ |
butte /byt/ |
buttions /by.tjɔ̃/ |
buttiez /by.tje/ |
buttent /byt/ |
| imperfect1 | buttasse /by.tas/ |
buttasses /by.tas/ |
buttât /by.ta/ |
buttassions /by.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
buttassiez /by.ta.sje/ |
buttassent /by.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | butte /byt/ |
— | buttons /by.tɔ̃/ |
buttez /by.te/ |
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External links[edit]
- “butter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of butter | |||
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| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | butter | buttrare | buttrast |
| Neuter singular | buttert | buttrare | buttrast |
| Plural | buttra | buttrare | buttrast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | buttre | buttrare | buttraste |
| All | buttra | buttrare | buttraste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. |
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