bute

See also: Bute, buté, būte, būtė, butë, büte, butę, and буте

English

Etymology

From its middle syllable.

Noun

bute (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation
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Verb

bute

  1. inflection of buter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

bute

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch *buute, *buete, from Old Dutch *būti (“exchange; allotment; spoils”), perhaps borrowed from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”).

Noun

bûte f

  1. exchange, barter
  2. allotment
  3. plunder
  • bûten (“to barter; to divide up; to plunder”)

Descendants
  • → Middle High German: biute
    • German: Beute
    • Yiddish: בײַטן (baytn)
    • → Old Czech: bít, bíta[1]
  • → Old Norse: býti n

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin buttis, probably of Ancient Greek origin.

Noun

bute f (plural buți)

  1. (rare, regional) barrel, cask; contents of a barrel
    Synonyms: butoi, putină
  2. pillar that supports the structure of a tunnel, such as in a mine

Declension
Declension of bute
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) bute butea (niște) buți buțile
genitive/dative (unei) buți buții (unor) buți buților
vocative bute, buteo buților

Derived terms

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈβute]

Noun

bute (plural butejte)

  1. can, tin

References
  • Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 16, 111
  • Tuggy, David (2004) “Spanish Borrowings in Mösiehuali̱”, in SIL Mexico‎

Volapük

Noun

bute

  1. dative singular of but
  1. Newerkla, Stefan Michael (2011) “bít, bíta”, in Sprachkontakte Deutsch – Tschechisch – Slowakisch: Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter im Tschechischen und Slowakischen: historische Entwicklung, Beleglage, bisherige und neue Deutungen (Schriften über Sprachen und Texte; 7) (in German), 2nd edition, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 155
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