buttis
Latin
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbut.tis/, [ˈbʊt̪ːɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbut.tis/, [ˈbut̪ːis]
Noun
buttis f (genitive buttis); third declension
- (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 […]
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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
- butticula
- buttia
Descendants
- Borrowings
Further reading
- buttis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- but(t)is in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “butta”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “buttis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 111
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 749
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