different between butter vs anemone

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b??t?r, IPA^(key): /?b?t??/
  • • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b?t??]
    • (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b???]
    • (Scotland, Wales) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/, [?b???], /?b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• (Northern England, Midlands) IPA^(key): /?b?t?/
  • Rhymes: -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: but?ter

Etymology 1

From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buter?, from Latin b?t?rum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (boút?ron, “cow cheese”), compound of ???? (boûs, “ox, cow”) and ????? (t?rós, “cheese”).

Noun

butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)

1. A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
2. Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).

3. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.

4. (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.

Derived terms

Related terms

• butterfly
• butter-ham

Translations

Verb

butter (third-person singular simple present butters, present participle buttering, simple past and past participle buttered)

1. (transitive) To spread butter on.

2. To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
3. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• butyraceous
• ghee

Etymology 2

butt +? -er

Noun

butter (plural butters)

1. Someone who butts, or who butts in.
   • 2005, David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (page 156)

     […] these animals lacked self-correcting mechanisms of the kind seen in modern head-butters such as goats and big-horn sheep that would have kept the tremendous forces aligned with the rest of the skeleton.

Etymology 3

Derived from the aviation slang term

Adjective

butter (comparative more butter, superlative most butter)

1. Very smooth, very soft

   That landing was total butter!

French

Etymology

From butte.

Verb

butter

1. to heap

Conjugation

Further reading

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

German

Verb

butter

1. inflection of buttern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Middle English

Noun

butter

1. Alternative form of buter

Swedish

Adjective

butter (comparative buttrare, superlative buttrast)

1. grumpy

Declension

Anagrams

• brutet, buttre

West Flemish

Noun

butter ?

1. Alternative form of beuter

English

Etymology

From Latin anem?n?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (anem?n?), from ?????? (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -??? (-?n?, “daughter of the wind”).

Or from Phoenician *????????????????? (*n?mn), akin to Arabic ???????? ????????????? (šaq??iq an-nu?m?n, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) ??????? ??????????? (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??n?m.?.ni/
• Rhymes: -?m?ni

Often metathesized as IPA^(key): /??n?n.?.mi/

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

1. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all (...)

2. A sea anemone.

Derived terms

• anemonefish
• sea anemone

Translations

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin anem?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n?.mo.ne/

Noun

anemone m (plural anemoni)

1. anemone

Derived terms

• anemone di mare

See also

• attinia

Further reading

• anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (anem?n?). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ne?mo?.ne?/, [än??mo?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ne?mo.ne/, [?n??m??n?]

Noun

anem?n? f (genitive anem?n?s); first declension

1. windflower, anemone

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

References

• anemone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• anemone in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ane?mone/, [a.ne?mo.ne]

Noun

anemone f (plural anemones)

1. Alternative form of anémona

Further reading

• “anemone” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.