beurre

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beurre

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Inherited from Middle French beurre (16th c.), from a regional (eastern or western) variant of burre, from Old French burre, bure, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “butter”, literally “cow-cheese”).

• IPA^(key): /bœʁ/

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• Rhymes: -œʁ
• Homophones: beur, beurs, beurrent, beurres

beurre m (plural beurres)

1. butter

   Il a bu une pinte de beurre fondu.

   He drank a pint of melted butter.

• Haitian Creole: bè
• → Norman: beurre
• → Khmer: បឺរ (bəɨ)
• → Lao: ເບີ (bœ̄)
• → Vietnamese: bơ

beurre

1. inflection of beurrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• buure (continental Normandy)
• burre (Guernsey)
• bür (Sark)

From Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).

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beurre m (plural beurres)

1. (Jersey) butter