buter
See also: bûter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /by.te/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: butai, buté, butée, butées, butés, butez, buttai, butté, buttée, buttées, butter, buttés, buttez
Verb
buter
Conjugation
Conjugation of buter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | buter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | butant /by.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | buté /by.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bute /byt/ |
butes /byt/ |
bute /byt/ |
butons /by.tɔ̃/ |
butez /by.te/ |
butent /byt/ |
| imperfect | butais /by.tɛ/ |
butais /by.tɛ/ |
butait /by.tɛ/ |
butions /by.tjɔ̃/ |
butiez /by.tje/ |
butaient /by.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | butai /by.te/ |
butas /by.ta/ |
buta /by.ta/ |
butâmes /by.tam/ |
butâtes /by.tat/ |
butèrent /by.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | buterai /by.tʁe/ |
buteras /by.tʁa/ |
butera /by.tʁa/ |
buterons /by.tʁɔ̃/ |
buterez /by.tʁe/ |
buteront /by.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | buterais /by.tʁɛ/ |
buterais /by.tʁɛ/ |
buterait /by.tʁɛ/ |
buterions /by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
buteriez /by.tə.ʁje/ |
buteraient /by.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bute /byt/ |
butes /byt/ |
bute /byt/ |
butions /by.tjɔ̃/ |
butiez /by.tje/ |
butent /byt/ |
| imperfect2 | butasse /by.tas/ |
butasses /by.tas/ |
butât /by.ta/ |
butassions /by.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
butassiez /by.ta.sje/ |
butassent /by.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bute /byt/ |
— | butons /by.tɔ̃/ |
butez /by.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “buter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- buttyr, butter, botyr, buttir, butre, buttur, buttur, boter, buttre
- butera, butere (Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbutər(ə)/
Noun
buter (uncountable)
- butter (spread made of churned cream)
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- þa ƿaſ coꝛn dære: ⁊ flec ⁊ cæſe ⁊ butere. foꝛ nan ƿæſ o þe land. Ƿreccemen ſturuen of hungær.
- Grain was precious then, and meat, cheese, and butter, because there wasn't any in the country. Wretched men died from hunger.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “buter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 September 2018.
Middle High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, borrowed from Latin būtȳrum, borrowed from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron), from βοῦς (boûs) + τυρός (turós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈbʊtər/
Noun
buter m or f
Declension
Descendants
- Alemannic German: Butter
- Bavarian: Budda
- Viennese: Butta
- Central Franconian:
- German: Butter (see there for further descendants)
- Gottscheerish: púttər
- Palatinate German:
- Pennsylvania German: Budder
- East Central German: Putter (Silesian)
- Yiddish: פּוטער (puter)
References
- Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “buter”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
- "buter" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)