βούτυρον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βούτυρος (boúturos)
Etymology
βοῦς (boûs, “cow”) + τυρός (turós, “cheese”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bǒː.tyː.ron/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbu.ty.ron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβu.ty.ron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvu.ty.ron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvu.ti.ron/
Noun
βούτῡρον • (boútūron) n (genitive βουτῡ́ρου); second declension
- butter
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ βούτῡρον; τοῦ βουτῡ́ρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βούτῡρον tò boútūron | τὼ βουτῡ́ρω tṑ boutū́rō | τᾰ̀ βούτῡρᾰ tà boútūra | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βουτῡ́ρου toû boutū́rou | τοῖν βουτῡ́ροιν toîn boutū́roin | τῶν βουτῡ́ρων tôn boutū́rōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βουτῡ́ρῳ tôi boutū́rōi | τοῖν βουτῡ́ροιν toîn boutū́roin | τοῖς βουτῡ́ροις toîs boutū́rois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βούτῡρον tò boútūron | τὼ βουτῡ́ρω tṑ boutū́rō | τᾰ̀ βούτῡρᾰ tà boútūra | ||||||||||
Vocative | βούτῡρον boútūron | βουτῡ́ρω boutū́rō | βούτῡρᾰ boútūra | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Afrikaans: botter
- Alemannic German: Butter
- Bavarian: Budda
- Dutch: boter
- Old English: butere
- English: butter
- Esperanto: butero
- West Flemish: beuter
- French: beurre
- West Frisian: bûter
- Old High German: butera
- German: Butter
- Greek: βούτυρο (voútyro)
- Haitian Creole: bè
- Hunsrik: Butter
- Ido: butro
- Italian: burro
- Japanese: バター (batā)
- Korean: 빠다 (ppada) (North Korea), 버터 (beoteo) (South Korea)
- Latin: būtȳrum
- Lombard: butter
- Luxembourgish: Botter
- Macedonian: путер (puter)
- Occitan: burre
- Low German: Botter
- Sicilian: butirru
- Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)
- Slovene: puter
- Spanish: butiro
- Venetian: butiro
- Vietnamese: bơ
- Yiddish: פּוטער (puter)
Further reading
- βούτυρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βούτυρον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βούτυρον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)