Editing Butter (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Buttered crumpet3.jpg|thumb|Butter spread on a crumpet]]
The word ''butter'' derives (via [[Germanic languages]]) from the [[Latin]] ''butyrum'',<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dbutyrum butyrum] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127023222/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dbutyrum# |date=27 January 2012 }}, Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', on Perseus</ref> which is the [[Latinisation (literature)|latinisation]] of the [[Greek language|Greek]] βούτυρον (''bouturon'')<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbou%2Fturon βούτυρον] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317032537/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbou%2Fturon# |date=17 March 2012 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref><ref>[http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0112520#m_en_gb0112520 butter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101114104253/http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0112520#m_en_gb0112520#m_en_gb0112520 |date=14 November 2010 }}, Oxford Dictionaries</ref> and βούτυρος.<ref name="A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Butyrum">[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0063%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DB%3Aentry+group%3D3%3Aentry%3Dbutyrum-cn A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), Butyrum]</ref> This may be a compound of βοῦς (''bous''), "ox, cow"<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbou%3Ds βοῦς] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317024014/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dbou%3Ds# |date=17 March 2012 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> + τυρός (''turos''), "cheese", that is "cow-cheese".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dturo%2Fs τυρός] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316230327/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dturo%2Fs# |date=16 March 2012 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref><ref>Beekes, Robert Stephen Paul, and Lucien Van Beek. Etymological dictionary of Greek. Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, 2014</ref> The word ''turos'' ("cheese") is attested in [[Mycenaean Greek]].<ref>[http://www.palaeolexicon.com/default.aspx?static=12&wid=572 Palaeolexicon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304074111/http://www.palaeolexicon.com/default.aspx?static=12&wid=572# |date=4 March 2012 }}, Word study tool of ancient languages</ref> The Latinized form is found in the name [[butyric acid]], a compound found in [[Rancidification|rancid]] butter<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Widder|first1=Sabine|last2=Sen|first2=Alina|last3=Grosch|first3=Werner|date=1991-07-01|title=Changes in the flavour of butter oil during storage|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01192013|journal=Zeitschrift für Lebensmittel-Untersuchung und Forschung|language=en|volume=193|issue=1|pages=32–35|doi=10.1007/BF01192013|s2cid=82639499|issn=1438-2385}}</ref> and other dairy products.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Perko|first1=B.|last2=Habjan-Penca|first2=V.|last3=Godic|first3=K.|date=1988|title=Biochemical parameters of retarded fermentation of Parmesan cheese|url=https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=YU9100895|journal=Agris|publisher=Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations|access-date=10 July 2021|archive-date=10 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710092934/https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=YU9100895|url-status=live}}</ref>