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/, [ˈʊ.tɛr]

uter (feminine utra, neuter utrum); first/second declension

1. either, which (of two)
2. both

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er, with genitive singular in -īus and dative singular in -ī.

• alteruter
• neuter
• uterque
• utrubi

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ter/, [ˈʊ.tɛr]

uter m (genitive utris); third declension

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

• Although the nominative and accusative plural of uter was normally utrēs, the rare alternative neuter plural utria is also attested.

Third declension i-stem.

• utriculus

• Aromanian: utri
• French: outre
• Galician: odre
• Italian: otre
• Portuguese: odre
• 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, pages 646-647

• ūtar, ūtaro, ūtiro

From Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewHdʰr̥-, *h₁owHdʰr̥-, *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