different between brute vs bute

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bro?ot, IPA^(key): /b?u?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?ut/
• Rhymes: -u?t

Etymology 1

From Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin br?tus (“dull, stupid, insensible”), an Oscan loanword, from Proto-Indo-European *g?réh?us (“heavy”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (barús), Persian ????? (gerân) and Sanskrit ???? (gurú) (English guru).

Adjective

brute (comparative more brute, superlative most brute)

1. Without reason or intelligence (of animals). [from 15th c.]

2. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans). [from 16th c.]
3. Unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless. [from 16th c.]

4. Crude, unpolished. [from 17th c.]
5. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.

6. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.

Translations

Noun

brute (plural brutes)

1. (archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast. [from 17th c.]
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:

     they laid before them how unbecoming it was the Dignity of such sublime Creatures to be sollicitous about gratifying those Appetites, which they had in common with Brutes, and at the same time unmindful of those higher qualities that gave them the preeminence over all visible Beings.

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.17:

     But if he lives badly, he will, in the next life, be a woman; if he (or she) persists in evil-doing, he (or she) will become a brute, and go on through transmigrations until at last reason conquers.

2. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person. [from 17th c.]

   • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

3. (film, television) A kind of powerful spotlight.
   • 1976, A. Arthur Englander, ?Paul Petzold, Filming for Television (page 191)

     For a scene like the Highgate exhumation night sequence suitable equipment would consist of: two brutes on Molevators, three 10 K lights also on Molevators and, for good measure, two 5 Ks, four 2 Ks, two pups (1000 W), two North lights […]

4. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

1. (transitive) To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.

Etymology 2

Verb

brute (third-person singular simple present brutes, present participle bruting, simple past and past participle bruted)

1. Obsolete spelling of bruit

Anagrams

• Ubert, buret, rebut, tuber

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

brute

1. Inflected form of bruut

French

Adjective

brute

1. feminine singular of brut

Noun

brute f (plural brutes)

1. brute, an animal lacking in reason.
2. An animal lacking in intelligence and sensibility.
3. (By analogy) A person without reason.
4. One who imposes his will on others using violence - a bully.

Further reading

• “brute” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• buter, rebut, tuber

Italian

Adjective

brute

1. feminine plural of bruto

Anagrams

• turbe

Latin

Adjective

br?te

1. vocative masculine singular of br?tus

English

Etymology

From its middle syllable.

Noun

bute (uncountable)

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

Anagrams

• Tube, tube

French

Verb

bute

1. first-person singular present indicative of buter
2. third-person singular present indicative of buter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of buter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of buter
5. second-person singular imperative of buter

Anagrams

• tube, tubé

Middle English

Noun

bute

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bote (“boot”)

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• büte

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch *buute, *buete, from Old Dutch *b?ti, from Frankish *b?ti (“exchange; allotment; spoils”), perhaps borrowed from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”).

Noun

bûte f

1. exchange, barter
2. allotment
3. plunder

Related terms

• bûten (“to barter; to divide up; to plunder”)

Descendants

• ? Middle High German: biute
  • German: Beute
  • ? Old Czech: bít, bíta
    • Early Modern Czech: bít, bíta
• ? Old Norse: býti n
  • Icelandic: býti
  • Swedish: byte
  • Old Danish: bythæ
    • Danish: bytte

Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin buttis.

Noun

bute f (plural bu?i)

1. (rare, regional) barrel, cask; contents of a barrel
2. pillar that supports the structure of a tunnel, such as in a mine

Synonyms

• (barrel): butoi, putin?

Derived terms

• butoi

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish bote.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ute]

Noun

bute (plural butejte)

1. can, tin

References

• Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con la Secretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published 1971, pages 16, 111
• Tuggy, David (2004) , “Spanish Borrowings in Mösiehuali?”, in SIL Mexico?^[2]

Volapük

Noun

bute

1. dative singular of but