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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”).[1]
Pronunciation
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.
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN