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Latin
Etymology
Compare Ancient Greek βατταλογέω (battalogéō)
Pronunciation
Interjection
butubatta
- trifles, worthless things
- Sexti Pomei Festi De verborum significatione quae supersunt cum Pauli epitome. Emendata et annotata a Carolo Odofredo Muellero. Anno MDCCCXXXIX (1839), p. 36:
- Butubatta Naevius pro nugatoriis posuit, hoc est, nullius dignationis.
- Flavius Sosipater Charisius:
- Butubatta. Hoc Plautus pro nihilo et pro nugis posuit, ut in glossis veterum.
- Synonym: nūgātōria
References
- “butubatta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- butubatta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.