putidus

From pūteō (“I stink”, “I am rotten or putrid”) +‎ -idus (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.ti.dus/, [ˈpuːt̪ɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ti.dus/, [ˈpuːt̪id̪us]

pūtidus (feminine pūtida, neuter pūtidum, comparative pūtidior, superlative pūtidissimus, adverb pūtidē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literally) rotten, decaying, spoiled, fetid
   1. (of a wound) festering, infected, purulent, suppurating
   2. (without the attendant notion of decay or infection) stinking, reeking, foul, mephitic
2. (transferred senses):
   1. (in contemptuous language, of persons) old, half-rotten, withered, decrepit
      1. (of persons’ minds) addled, worn-out
   2. (of actions, utterances, etc.) tiresome, wearisome, objectionable, vexatious, offensive, disagreeable, disgusting
      1. (of written style, rhetorical composition, or pronunciation) unnatural, affected, stilted, pedantic

First/second-declension adjective.

• pūtidē
• pūtidiusculus
• pūtidulus

• Catalan: púdol
• Old Spanish: pudio

• “pūtĭdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “putidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pūtĭdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,281/3.
• “pūtidus” on page 1,526/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)