Noun: butter
| Singular | butter |
| Plural | butters |
Sample Sentences
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peanut butter
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soy butter
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chocolate butter
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Butters such as cocoa, illippe, kokum, mango, murumuru, sal (shorea) and shea occur naturally and are obtained directly from the plant. [2016 September 7, Elaine Stavert, Beauty Oils & Butter, GMC PUBLICATIONS LTD, →ISBN:]
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Butters are triglycerides […]. Cocoa butter (Theobroma cacao) is used as an emollient in topical cosmetic formulations, […] South American and the Brazilian rainforest offer various plants with common butters used in the industry that include […] cupuaçu butter […] and murumuru butter from the murumuru palm tree (Astrocaryum murumuru). India is another source of many butters used in cosmetic products, including kokum butter extracted from the seeds of the Garcinia indica tree, mango butter from the Mangifera indica tree and shea butter[…] [2019 April 5, Heather A.E. Benson, Michael S. Roberts, Vania Rodrigues Leite-Silva, Kenneth Walters, Cosmetic Formulation: Principles and Practice, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 227:]
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butter of antimony; butter of arsenic
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That “Confessions” into “Nice and Slow” transition [at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show] was buttah ! [2024 February 12, @OluBliss, X (post):]
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That landing was total butter!
Nouns inflected like butter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *gʷṓws
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
5. Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
6. Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
7. Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-rós
9. Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
10. Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
11. Ancient Greek τυρός (turós)
12. Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron)bor.
13. Latin būtȳrumbor.
14. Proto-West Germanic *buterā
15. Old English butere
16. Middle English buter
17. English butter
18. From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”).
19. Cognate with Dutch boter and German Butter. See: Middle English Nouns '
buter', Old English Nouns '
butere', Latin Nouns '
būtȳrum', Dutch Nouns '
boter', German Nouns '
Butter'.
Verbs referencing "butter"
Dutch Nouns
boter, Spanish Nouns
buro, Zulu Nouns
ibhotela.