puter

See also: Puter, putër, and 'puter

English

Pronunciation

Noun

puter (plural puters)

  1. Alternative form of 'puter (computer)

Anagrams

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese putĕr.

Verb

puter

  1. to turn

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *puH-; compare Sanskrit पूयति (pū́yati, stinks, rots), Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon, discharge from a sore), πύθω (púthō, to rot), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, foul), Old English fūl (foul) (whence English foul), from the same root.

Pronunciation

Adjective

puter (feminine putris, neuter putre); third-declension three-termination adjective

  1. rotten, decaying
  2. crumbling, friable

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative puter putris putre putrēs putria
Genitive putris putrium
Dative putrī putribus
Accusative putrem putre putrēs putria
Ablative putrī putribus
Vocative puter putris putre putrēs putria

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: putrid
  • Galician: podre
  • Italian: putre
  • Kabuverdianu: podri
  • Papiamentu: putrí
  • Portuguese: podre
  • Spanish: podre
  • Proto-Brythonic: *pudr
    • Middle Welsh: pwdyr

References

  • puter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • puter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

puter m or f

  1. indefinite plural of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puter f

  1. indefinite plural of pute

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Butter (pronounced with initial unaspirated [p] in an Austro-Bavarian accent), from Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).

Noun

pȕter m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏тер)

  1. butter

Declension

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