Butcher
/ˈbʊtʃər/noun
A person who prepares and sells meat, or one who kills brutally.
Did you know?“Butcher” entered English through Old French from a Latin word tied to goats, because early butchers were originally associated with slaughtering and selling goat meat.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kapro-
“goat”
Latin
Latin
caper
“he-goat”
Late Latin
Latin
*cappo / *capparius
“goat-seller or goat-related dealer”
Old French
Old French
bouchier
“butcher; meat seller”
Middle English
English
butcher
“a person who slaughters animals for meat”