bute

From its middle syllable.

bute (uncountable)

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

• Tube, tube, Tebu, -Tube

• Audio:

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bute

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

• tube, tubé

bute

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

• büte

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”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

bûte f

1. exchange, barter
2. allotment
3. plunder

• bûten (“to barter; to divide up; to plunder”)

• → Middle High German: biute
  • German: Beute
  • Yiddish: בײַטן (baytn)
  • → Old Czech: bít, bíta^[1]
    • Early Modern Czech: bít, bíta
• → Old Norse: býti n
  • Icelandic: býti
  • Swedish: byte
  • Old Danish: bythæ
    • Danish: bytte

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

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

• butar
• butoi

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

• IPA^(key): [ˈβute]

bute (plural butejte)

1. can, tin

• 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]

bute

1. dative singular of but