butyrum

Latin

Alternative forms

• būtūrum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [buːˈtyː.rũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [buˈtiː.rum]
• (Late Latin Greek accent variant) IPA^(key): [ˈbuː.tyː.rũː]

Noun

būtȳrum n (genitive būtȳrī); second declension

1. butter
2. (alchemy) chemicals with butter-like consistency, mostly chloride salts

   butyrum antimonii ― SbCl₃

   butyrum arsenici ― K₃AsO₄

   butyrum zinci ― ZnCl₂

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	būtȳrum	būtȳra
genitive	būtȳrī	būtȳrōrum
dative	būtȳrō	būtȳrīs
accusative	būtȳrum	būtȳra
ablative	būtȳrō	būtȳrīs
vocative	būtȳrum	būtȳra

Descendants

• From bútyrum (per the Greek accentuation):
  • Aragonese: buro
  • Occitan: burre, bóder
  • Old Catalan: bori
  • Franco-Provençal: burro
  • Old French: bure (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: buire
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *buterā (see there for further descendants)
• From butýrum:
  • Corsican: butiru, butirru
  • Dalmatian: butir
  • Emilian: butîr, butēr
  • Italian: butirro
    • → Sardinian: butirru
  • Ligurian: butîro, bitîro
  • Lombard: buter, bütér
  • Occitan: boder
  • Piedmontese: butir
  • Sicilian: butirru
    • → Maltese: butir
  • Venetan: butiro, botiro, butiero
  • → Spanish: butiro

References

• “butyrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “butyrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “butyrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “butyrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• For various descendants:
  • Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “bori”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “butyrum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 108
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1: A–B, page 663