Butter
A fat from churned cream or a spread made from fruits or vegetables similar in consistency to softened butter.
Etymology (from the AHD):
Middle English butere, from Old English, from Latin butyrum, from Greek bouturon : bous, "cow" + turos "cheese".
Other words from these roots *gwou- [cow] and *teue- [swell] include:
cow, bugle (from Latin buculus, steer, diminutive of bos), bovine, bucolic, boustrophedon, hecatomb
&
thousand, from Germanic compound *thus-hundi-, "swollen hundred,"
thumb (from Old English), tumor (along with tumid, tumescent, protuberant, from Latin)
butter, tiropita (cheese pie, from Greek), and soma (body)> somatic, soteriology.
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