Burette
/bjʊˈrɛt/noun
A narrow graduated glass tube with a stopcock, used to deliver measured volumes of liquid, especially in titrations.
Did you know?Burette is a French diminutive of bure, a coarse wool cloth, so the word’s history runs from textile life to precision science through a chain of naming that began with a humble cloth cap.
Etymological Timeline
Late Latin
LL
bura
“a shaggy garment or coarse cloth”
Old French
OF
bure
“coarse woolen cloth; later a brownish cloth or hood”
French
Fr
burette
“little bure; a small cloth hood or cap”
18th Century
French
burette
“a small vessel or tube for pouring liquids”
Modern English
English
burette
“a calibrated glass tube for dispensing measured amounts of liquid”