butor

From Middle French butor, from Old French butor, from Vulgar Latin *butitaurus, from Latin būtiō (“bittern”) + taurus (“bull”), because of its deep booming call; compare also Middle Dutch watervar (“bittern”, literally “water bull”).

• IPA^(key): /by.tɔʁ/

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butor m (plural butors)

1. bittern (bird of the family Ardeidae)
2. boor, oaf

• → Catalan: butor

• “butor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French butor (“bittern”), from Vulgar Latin *butitaurus, from Latin būtiō (“bittern”) + taurus (“bull”).

butor m (plural butors)

1. (Jersey) stupid person

From Vulgar Latin *butitaurus, from būtiō (“bittern”) + taurus (“bull”), because of its booming call; compare also Middle Dutch watervar (“bittern”, literally “water bull”). Cognates include Old Galician-Portuguese betouro (Galician abetouro), Spanish avetoro.

butor oblique singular, m (oblique plural butors, nominative singular butors, nominative plural butor)

1. bittern (bird)

• Middle French: butor
  • French: butor
    • → Catalan: butor
• → Middle Dutch: butoor
  • Dutch: butoor
• → Middle English: bitour, botor
  • English: bittern
• → Translingual: Botaurus