butio

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *b(e)u, of imitative origin. See also Ancient Greek βύας (búas), Bulgarian буч (buč), Old Armenian բուէճ (buēč), and North Persian بوم (bum). Also compare būteō (“buzzard”). Compare typologycally Russian выпь (vypʹ) (akin to вопи́ть (vopítʹ), вопль (voplʹ)). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbuː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbut.t͡si.o] === Noun === būtiō m (genitive būtiōnis); third declension bittern ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === References === “butio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “butio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.