uter

For *cuter, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros, from *kʷos (“which”), ultimately from *kʷ-. See also Ancient Greek πότερος (póteros, “which of the two”) and English whether.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ter/, [ˈʊt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ter/, [ˈuːt̪er]

uter (feminine utra, neuter utrum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal)

1. (interrogative) "Which?" (of two), whether?
2. (relative) whichever (of two)
3. (indefinite) either
4. both

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal).

• alteruter
• neuter
• uterque
• utrubi

For *udris, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”). Compare with Ancient Greek ὑδρία (hudría, “water-pot, pitcher”). Related to vitrum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ter/, [ˈʊt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ter/, [ˈuːt̪er]

uter m (genitive utris); third declension

1. wine or water skin or bottle
2. bag made of hide (inflated for flotation)

• Note: although the nominative and accusative plural was normally the masculine utrēs, the rare alternative neuter plural utria is also attested.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• utriculus

• Aromanian: utri
• Catalan: odre
• → French: outre
• Galician: odre
• Italian: otre
• Piedmontese: oiro
• Portuguese: odre
• Sicilian: utri
• Spanish: odre

• “uter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “uter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• uter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to offer a person the alternative of... or..: optionem alicui dare, utrum...an
    
  • (ambiguous) it is a debated point whether... or..: in contentione ponitur, utrum...an
    
• “uter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “uter”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 646-647

• ūtar, ūtaro, ūtiro

From Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewHdʰr̥-, *h₁ówHdʰr̥, *h₁uHdʰr̥- (“udder”).

ūter n

1. udder

• Middle High German: ūter, iuter
  • Cimbrian: autar
  • German: Euter
  • Luxembourgish: Auder

Borrowed from Latin uterus, French utérus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈu.ter]

uter n (plural utere)

1. (anatomy) uterus