buttery · adjective, noun1
- Middle English · inherited frombuttry
- English todaybuttery
From Middle English buttry, equivalent to butter + -y. Piecewise doublet of butyric, butter ultimately being from Latin būtȳrum and -y being a doublet of -ic.
buttery · noun2
- Late Latin · derived frombotāria
- Medieval Latin · derived frombuteria
- Old French · derived fromboterie
- Middle English · inherited fromboterie
- English todaybuttery
From Middle English boterie, from Old French boterie and Medieval Latin buteria, from Late Latin botāria, from a variant form of butta (“cask, bottle”). The form was probably influenced by butter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.