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βού-τῡρον

bouturon

butter

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1. βούτῦρον · boutyron — Beekes

βούτῦρον [n.] ‘butter’ (Hp.). “ΑΚ Also βούτυρος (Gal.), after τυρός. *ETYM From βοῦς and τυρός; cf. βούσταθμον (: σταθμός). Lat. batp¥rum is borrowed from the Greek, and from the Latin in turn OHG butera, MoDu. boter, etc. See Schrader-Nehring 1917(1): 177f. — [Beekes, s.v. βούτῦρον, p. 280]

2. βούτῦρον · boutyron — Frisk

βούτῦρον n. “Butter” (Hp., Arist., LXX usw.). Davon βουτύρινος (Dsk.). Eig. "Kuhquark’, aus βοῦς und τυρός, der Form nach ein neutrales substantiviertes Bahuvrihikompositum, wie βούσταϑμον (: σταϑμός) usw. Daneben, mit Anschluß an τυρός, βούτυρος (Gal.). Aus βούτυρον stammt lat. bütjrum, woraus weiterhin die westgermanischen Formen, ahd. butera usw. — Vgl. Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 177£., Olck P.-W. 3, 1089 ff. — [Frisk, s.v. βούτῦρον, p. 293]

3. βού-τῡρον · bou-tyron — LSJ

butter

butter, τὸ πῖον τοῦ γάλακτος Hp. Morb. 4.51, cf. Arist. Fr. 636, Plu. Col. 2.1109b, LXX Ge. 18.8, Sor. 1.86, Dsc. 2.72, Edict.Diocl. 4.50:—also βούτῡρος, ὁ, Gal. 13.527.

II plant

a plant, Hsch.; ὄζει ὁ τόπος β. Ath. 9.395a.

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