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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bju?t/
• Rhymes: -u?t
• Homophone: beaut

Noun

butte (plural buttes)

1. (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

   Coordinate term: mesa

Derived terms

• Box Butte County
• Butte County

Translations

Further reading

• butte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Adjective

butte

1. definite of but
2. plural of but

French

Etymology

Feminine form of but (“aim, target”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byt/

Noun

butte f (plural buttes)

1. small hill, mound, hillock; knoll

   Synonyms: colline, tertre

2. heap

Descendants

• ? English: butte

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

butte

1. definite singular of butt
2. plural of butt

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