butte
See also: Butte and butté
English
Etymology
PIE word |
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*bʰudʰmḗn |
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbjuːt/
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈbʌt/[1]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
- Homophone: beaut
Noun
butte (plural buttes)
- (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
- Coordinate term: mesa
- 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars”, in The New York Times:
- Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
Derived terms
- Box Butte County
- Butte County
- Butte Creek
- Butte Creek Canyon
- Butte Falls
- Butte Meadows
- Butte Valley
Translations
hill
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References
- Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “1. The Vowel Sounds of Stressed Syllables”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, DOI:, →ISBN, § 10, page 38.
Further reading
- butte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Danish
Adjective
butte
- definite of but
- plural of but
French
Etymology
Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /byt/
Audio (file)
Noun
butte f (plural buttes)
- small hill, mound, hillock; knoll
- Synonyms: colline, tertre
- heap
- Faire une butte autour des plantes de pomme de terre.
- Make a heap around the potato plants.
Descendants
- → English: butte
Further reading
- “butte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Noun
butte
- ablative singular of buttis
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
butte
- definite singular of butt
- plural of butt
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
butte
- definite singular of butt
- plural of butt