puteus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). Confer with Latin paviō, paveō.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpʊ.te.ʊs]

Noun

puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension

  1. pit, dungeon
  2. well
  3. cistern

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative puteus puteī
Genitive puteī puteōrum
Dative puteō puteīs
Accusative puteum puteōs
Ablative puteō puteīs
Vocative putee puteī

Derived terms
  • puticulī

Descendants
  • Romansch: puoz
  • Sardinian: pussu, putzu
  • Sicilian: puzzu
  • Spanish: pozo
  • Venetian: poso, poç
  • → Welsh: pydew

References
  • puteus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • puteus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • puteus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • puteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • puteus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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