butin

Inherited from Old French butin.

• IPA^(key): /by.tɛ̃/

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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

• → Breton: butin
• → Catalan: botí

• “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)

• botin

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.

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

1. spoils, plunder, booty
2. allotment

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

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

• 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

• butìn

butin m (plural butini)

1. child