buit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bʊ̟ɪt]

Noun

buit (plural [please provide])

1. booty, spoil

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Etymology

From Old Catalan buit, from Old Occitan (compare Occitan voide, void, vued), from Vulgar Latin *vŏcĭtus (compare French vide, Old French vuit, Italian vuoto), itself related to vocuus, from Latin vacuus, or perhaps a participle of a Vulgar Latin verb *vŏcāre, *vŏcĕre as a variant of Latin vacō, vacāre (“be empty”)^[1] (or alternatively a variant of vacĭtus as a participle of a *vacĕre).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbujt/
• Rhymes: -ujt

Adjective

buit (feminine buida, masculine plural buits, feminine plural buides)

1. vacant
2. empty

Noun

buit m (plural buits)

1. empty space; gap
2. vacuum
3. void

References

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -œy̯t
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /bœy̯t/

• audio (Belgium)

  (file)

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /bœy̯t/

Noun

buit m (uncountable)

1. spoil, booty