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
- to stop dead
- to prop up, buttress
- (figuratively) to kill
- (figuratively) to obsess; to become obsessed
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
- brute, rebut, tuber
Middle English
Alternative forms
- buttyr, butter, botyr, buttir, butre, buttur, buttur, boter, buttre
- (Early ME) butera, butere
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, 8 February 2018:
- 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.
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Related terms
- boterflye
Descendants
- English: butter
- Scots: butter, buter
- Yola: buthther, buththere
References
- “buter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.