buttis

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably via Greek (compare Ancient Greek πυτίνη (putínē, “flask”) and βοῦττις (boûttis)), ultimately from the imitative Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”). Also see German Bütte, Latin bulla.

Pronunciation

Noun

buttis f (genitive buttis); third declension

  1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) cask, barrel
    • c. 1080, John of Lodi, Vita B. Damiani, section 22:
      Aliquando vir Dei buttem vini repositam apud quamdam suam capellam habuerat […]
      On one occasion, the man of God had left a cask of wine by a certain chapel of his […]

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative buttis buttēs
Genitive buttis buttium
Dative buttī buttibus
Accusative buttem buttēs
buttīs
Ablative butte buttibus
Vocative buttis buttēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: buti
    • Romanian: bute, butoi
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Old French: boute
  • Old Occitan: bota
  • West Iberian:
  • → Albanian: but
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *buttjā (see there for further descendants)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: буцањ / bucanj
  • → Slovene: búča

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