butin

See also: Butin, бутин, and Бутин

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French butin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.tɛ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

butin m (plural butins)

1. loot, booty (the proceeds of theft, robbery etc., swag, contraband)
2. what is obtained or amassed by laborious collection
3. what is collected by insects such as bees or ants; a load of pollen, nectar, etc.
4. (Louisiana) furniture
5. (Louisiana) belongings, household possessions

Descendants

• → Breton: butin
• → Catalan: botí

Further reading

• “butin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

Old French

Alternative forms

• botin

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *boudinus, from Gaulish *boudi, from Proto-Celtic *boudi (“profit, gains; victory”), or perhaps from Vulgar Latin *būtīnus, from Old Dutch *būti, possibly also from Gaulish.

Noun

butin oblique singular, m (oblique plural butins, nominative singular butins, nominative plural butin)

1. spoils, plunder, booty
2. allotment

Derived terms

• butiner
  • Middle French: butiner
    • French: butiner
  • → Middle Dutch: butineren

Descendants

• Middle French: butin
  • French: butin
    • → Breton: butin
    • → Catalan: botí
• → Middle English: bottyne, botye, buty
  • English: booty, bootyn (archaic)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (butin, supplement)
• Rolleston, T.W. (2018): Celtic Mythology

Venetan

Alternative forms

• butìn

Noun

butin m (plural butini)

1. child