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βούτυρον

βούτυρον

Ancient Greek

Noun

βούτῡρον • ‎(boútūron) n ‎(genitive βουτύρου); second declension

butter

Inflection

Second declension of βούτῡρον, βουτύρου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βούτῡρον	τὼ βουτύρω	τὰ βούτῡρᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ βουτύρου	τοῖν βουτύροιν	τῶν βουτύρων
Dative	τῷ βουτύρῳ	τοῖν βουτύροιν	τοῖς βουτύροις
Accusative	τὸ βούτῡρον	τὼ βουτύρω	τὰ βούτῡρᾰ
Vocative	βούτῡρον	βουτύρω	βούτῡρᾰ

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Descendants

Afrikaans: botter
Alemannic German: Butter
Bavarian: Budda
Dutch: boter
Old English: butere
English: butter
Esperanto: butero
West Flemish: beuter
French: beurre
West Frisian: bûter
Old High German: butera
German: Butter
Greek: βούτυρο ‎(voútyro)
Haitian Creole: bè
Ido: butro

Italian: burro
Japanese: バター ‎(batā)
Korean: 빠다 ‎(ppada) (North Korea), 버터 ‎(beoteo) (South Korea)
Latin: būtȳrum
Lombard: butter
Luxembourgish: Botter
Macedonian: путер ‎(puter)
Occitan: burre
Low German: Botter
Sicilian: butirru
Sinhalese: බටර් ‎(baṭar)
Slovene: puter
Venetian: butiro
Vietnamese: bơ
Yiddish: פּוטער ‎(puter)

Related terms

βούτυρος ‎(boúturos)

References

βούτυρον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
«βούτυρον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
«βούτυρον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)