buttis

Latin

Alternative forms

• būtis, butta, būta, bōta

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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbut.tis/, [ˈbʊt̪ːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbut.tis/, [ˈbut̪ːis]

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

• butticula
• buttia

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: buti
  • Romanian: bute, butoi
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: botte
  • Neapolitan: votte
  • Sicilian: vutti
• Old French: boute
  • → Irish: buta
• Old Occitan: bota
  • Catalan: bot
  • → French: botte
• West Iberian:
  • Galician: bota
  • Spanish: boto, bota
• → Albanian: but
• → Proto-West Germanic: *buttjā (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: буцањ / bucanj
• → Slovene: búča

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^[1], 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