buttare

From Old French bouter (“to strike”), of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /butˈta.re/

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: but‧tà‧re

buttàre (first-person singular present bùtto, first-person singular past historic buttài, past participle buttàto, auxiliary (transitive) avére or (intransitive) èssere)

1. (transitive) to throw, to toss, to fling, to chuck, to sling

   Synonyms: gettare, lanciare

   • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXI”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 43–45; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Là giù ’l buttò, e per lo scoglio duro ¶ si volse; e mai non fu mastino sciolto ¶ con tanta fretta a seguitar lo furo.

     He hurled him down, and over the hard crag turned round, and never was a mastiff loosened in so much hurry to pursue a thief.

2. (transitive) to spout, to spurt, to pour, to discharge

   Synonyms: perdere, zampillare

3. (transitive) to throw about, to waste

   Synonyms: sprecare, germogliare

4. (transitive) to put out, to sprout, to shoot
5. (transitive) to beat in
6. (transitive) to put (the pasta) in boiling water
7. (intransitive) to tend [+ a (something) = towards] [auxiliary essere]

   l'arancio butta al rosso ― the orange [color] tends towards red

8. (intransitive) to turn out (well or badly) [auxiliary essere]

• buretta, buttera, butterà, turbate