buter

See also: bûter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.te/

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• Homophones: butai, buté, butée, butées, butés, butez, buttai, butté, buttée, buttées, butter, buttés, buttez

Verb

buter

1. to stop dead
2. to prop up, buttress
3. (informal) to kill
4. (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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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
• 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)

1. 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.

Related terms

• boterflye

Descendants

• English: butter (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: butter, buter
• Yola: buthther, buththere

References

• “buter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 September 2018.

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• butere, puter

Etymology

Inherited from Old High German butira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈbutər/

Noun

buter m or f

1. butter

Declension

Declension of buter (strong masculine without umlaut)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	buter	die	buter, butere
genitive	eines	dës	buters, buteres	dër	buter, butere
dative	eime	dëm	buter, butere	dën	butern, buteren
accusative	einen	dën	buter	die	buter, butere

Declension of buter (weak feminine)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	diu	buter	die	butern
genitive	einer	dër	butern	dër	butern
dative	einer	dër	butern	dën	butern
accusative	eine	die	butern	die	butern

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Butter
• Bavarian: Budda
  • Viennese: Butta
• Central Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Butter
  • Luxembourgish: Botter
• 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
• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “buter”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition