Where does “burette” come from?

Burette comes from French burette, a diminutive form denoting a small cylindrical vessel used in laboratories for dispensing liquids.

burette (English): A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock...

Definitions

  1. A glass tube with fine gradations and a stopcock...

Ancestry of “burette”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchburetteoilcan; burette; cruet used to keep wine and...
2French-ettefemale equivalent of -et
3Latin-itta
4Hungarianiszikto drink
5Proto-Uralicjëxe-to drink; to flow?

Words derived from “burette

Every word from Proto-Uralic jëxe-