butyrum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === būtūrum === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, literally “cow cheese”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [buːˈtyː.rũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [buˈtiː.rum] (Late Latin Greek accent variant) IPA(key): [ˈbuː.tyː.rũː] === Noun === būtȳrum n (genitive būtȳrī); second declension butter (alchemy) chemicals with butter-like consistency, mostly chloride salts butyrum antimonii ― SbCl3 butyrum arsenici ― K3AsO4 butyrum zinci ― ZnCl2 ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “butyrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “butyrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “butyrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “butyrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin For various descendants: “bori” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962. Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “butyrum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 108 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “butyrum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 1: A–B, page 663