different between butterfly vs bea

English

Etymology

From Middle English buterflie, butturflye, boterflye, from Old English butorfl?oge, buttorfl?oge, buterfl?oge (from butere (“butter”)), equivalent to butter +? fly. Cognate with Dutch botervlieg, German Butterfliege (“butterfly”). The name may have originally been applied to butterflies of a yellowish color, and/or reflected a belief that butterflies ate milk and butter (compare German Molkendieb (“butterfly”, literally “whey thief”) and Low German Botterlicker (“butterfly”, literally “butter-licker”)), or that they excreted a butter-like substance (compare Dutch boterschijte (“butterfly”, literally “butter-shitter”)). Compare also German Schmetterling from Schmetten (“cream”), German Low German Bottervögel (“butterfly”, literally “butter-fowl”). More at butter, fly.

An alternate theory suggests that the first element may have originally been butor- (“beater”), a mutation of b?atan (“to beat”).

Superseded non-native Middle English papilion (“butterfly”) borrowed from Old French papillon (“butterfly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?t?(?)fla?/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [?b???fla?]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?b?t?fla?]
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

butterfly (plural butterflies)

2. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring. [from 11th c.]
3. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.

5. (swimming) The butterfly stroke. [from 20th c.]
6. (in the plural) A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach.

   I get terrible butterflies before an exam.

7. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable. [from 17th c.]
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     He was affable; therefore he was frivolous. The women liked him; therefore he was a butterfly.

Synonyms

• lep

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

butterfly (third-person singular simple present butterflies, present participle butterflying, simple past and past participle butterflied)

1. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.

   butterflied shrimp

   Butterfly the chicken before you grill it.

2. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.

See also

• caterpillar
• flutterby
• moth
• Appendix: Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

References

Anagrams

• flutterby

Danish

Noun

butterfly c (singular definite butterflyen, plural indefinite butterfly)

1. bowtie

Inflection

Aloápam Zapotec

Noun

bea

1. cloud

Basque

Noun

bea

1. absolutive singular of be

Bughotu

Noun

bea

1. water
2. juice
3. liquid

References

• W. Ivens, Bugotu-English/English-Bugotu Concise Dictionary (1998)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay bea, from Javanese ??? (béya), from Old Javanese ??? (béya), from Sanskrit ???? (vyaya). Doublet of biaya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bea/
• Hyphenation: béa

Noun

béa (plural bea-bea, first-person possessive beaku, second-person possessive beamu, third-person possessive beanya)

1. tax, custom duty.
2. expense

Alternative forms

• bia

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Chinese: ??

References

Further reading

• “bea” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

bea

1. third-person singular present indicative of beare
2. second-person singular imperative of beare

Latin

Verb

be?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of be?

References

• bea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Malay

Noun

bea

1. Taxes, toll, dues.

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish betha, from Old Irish bethu (“life, existence”), from Proto-Celtic *biwot?ts, from *biwos from Proto-Indo-European *g?ih?wós (“alive”), from *g?eih?w- (“to live”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be?]

Noun

bea f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. life

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “betha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bib?, from Proto-Italic *pib?, from Proto-Indo-European *píph?eti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be?a]

Verb

a bea (third-person singular present bea, past participle b?ut) 2nd conj.

1. to drink

Conjugation

Derived terms

• b?utor m, b?utoare f
• bere

Related terms

• b?utur?
• beat
• be?iv
• zbea

See also

• mânca
• sorbi

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of bearnaisesås, itself from French béarnaise + sås.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²be?a/

Noun

bea c

1. (cooking, colloquial) béarnaise sauce

   Synonym: bearnaisesås

Declension

Tabo

Noun

bea

1. water

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing G. Reesink Languages of the Aramia River Area (1976), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19, and S. A. Wurm, The Kiwaian Language Family (1973), pages 217-224, in The Linguistic Situation in the Gulf District and Adjacent Area, Papua New Guinea (K. J. Franklin, editor)

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French biau, from Latin bellus.

Adjective

bea (feminine bele)

1. beautiful; handsome; attractive; pretty