English

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Etymology

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From its middle syllable.

Noun

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bute (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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bute

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

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Middle English

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Noun

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bute

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

Middle Low German

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Alternative forms

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  • büte

Etymology

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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

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bûte f

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

Descendants

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

Romanian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative bute butea buți buțile
genitive-dative buți buții buți buților
vocative bute, buteo buților

Derived terms

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Tetelcingo Nahuatl

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bute (plural butejte)

  1. can, tin

References

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  • Brewer, Forrest, Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)‎[1] (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[2]

Volapük

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Noun

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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