puter
English
Alternative forms
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
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.ter/, [ˈpʊ.tɛr]
Declension
Third-declension three-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 |
Derived terms
Descendants
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
Norwegian Nynorsk
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
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-Germanic *buterǭ, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).
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