put
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English putten, puten, poten, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English *putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), possibly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”). Outside of Germanic possibly comparable to Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”).
Pronunciation
Verb
put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)
- To place something somewhere.
- She put her books on the table.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess[1]:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- Put your house in order!
- He is putting all his energy into this one task.
- She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
- (finance) To exercise a put option.
- He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
- To express something in a certain manner.
- When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
- (Can we date this quote by Hare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- All this is ingeniously and ably put.
- (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- (Can we date this quote by John Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
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- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- (Can we date this quote by Wyclif and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Bible, John xv. 13
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- (Can we date this quote by Wyclif and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), Bible, John xv. 13
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- to put a question; to put a case
- (Can we date this quote by Berkeley and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Put the perception and you put the mind.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
- (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- (Can we date this quote by Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Can we date this quote by Jonathan Swift and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)
Derived terms
- forthput
- input
- not to put too fine a point on it
- output
- putable
- put about
- put across
- put a gun to someone's head
- put aside
- put a sock in it
- put away
- put back
- put by
- put down
- put end
- put forth
- put forward
- put in
- put in place
- put in practice
- put into
- put off
- put on
- put on airs
- put on a pedestal
- put one over
- put one's cards on the table
- put one's house in order
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- put one's name in the hat
- put out
- put out feelers
- put over
- put paid to
- put someone in mind of
- put someone up to something
- puttable
- put the brakes on
- put the fear of God into
- put through
- put to
- put together
- put to rest
- put to sea
- put two and two together
- put under
- put up
- put-up (adjective)
- put upon
- put up with
- put wise
- put with
- put words in someone's mouth
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See also
Noun
put (plural puts)
- (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- (Can we date this quote by Johnson's Cyc. and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- the put of a ball
- (Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The stag's was a forc'd put, and a chance rather than a choice.
- An old card game.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Young to this entry?)
Translations
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See also
- Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- call
- option
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt.
Pronunciation
Noun
put (plural puts)
- (obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer.
- 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":
- Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
- And of lost hospitality complain.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 244:
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.
- 1870, Frederic Harrison, "The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair," Fortnightly Review:
- Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!
- 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":
Etymology 3
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French pute.
Noun
put (plural puts)
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.
Noun
put (plural putte)
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
put
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.
Noun
put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
put
- (deprecated template usage) first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of putten
Finnish
Interjection
put
- (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
put
- third-person singular past historic of pouvoir
Kalasha
Noun
put
- Alternative spelling of putr
Latvian
Verb
put
- (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular present indicative form of putēt
- (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural present indicative form of putēt
- (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular imperative form of putēt
- (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural imperative form of putēt
Romanian
Verb
put
- first-person singular present indicative of puți
- first-person singular present subjunctive of puți
- third-person plural present indicative of puți
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Verb
put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)
Derived terms
Noun
put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)
- young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)
- (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
- corpulent person; any bulging thing
- shovelful, sod, spadeful
- (medicine) bruised swelling
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
puta | phuta |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “put”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ponth₂-.
Cognate with sputnik, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “fellow traveller”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)
- road
- put za Sarajevo — road to Sarajevo
- gd(j)e vodi ovaj put? — where does this road lead?
- way
- ovim putem — this way
- ići pravim putem — to go the right way
- vodeni put — waterway
- ići svojim putem — to go one's own way
- stati nekome na put — to stand in somebody's way
- teret je na putu — cargo is on the way
- miči mi se s puta! — get out of my way!
- najkraći put do bolnice — the shortest way to the hospital
- na pola puta do škole — halfway to the school
- path
- krčiti put — to clear a path
- put do usp(j)eha — the path to success
- trip, journey
- ići na put — to go on a trip
- biti na putu — to be on a trip
- put oko sv(ij)eta — a trip around the world
- poslovni put — a business trip
- (figurative and idiomatic senses) method, means
- sudskim putem — by legal means; through court order
- službenim/zvaničnim putem — through official channels
- Ml(ij)ečni put — Milky Way
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pȗt | pútovi / pútevi / púti |
genitive | púta | pútēvā / pútōvā |
dative | putu | pútovima / pútevima / pútima |
accusative | pȗt | pútove / púteve / púte |
vocative | pute | pútovi / pútevi / púti |
locative | putu | pútovima /pútevima / pútima |
instrumental | pútom / pútem | pútovima /pútevima / pútima |
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *plъtь.
Pronunciation
Noun
pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)
- complexion, skin hue, tan
- sv(ij)etla put — fair complexion/tan
- tamna put — dark complexion/tan
- crna put — black complexion/tan
- body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities
- mlada put — a young body
- gladna put — a hungry body
Declension
Etymology 3
From pȗt (“road, path, way”).
Cognated with sputnik, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “fellow traveller”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) (+ genitive case)
- to, toward
- put Sarajeva ― toward Sarajevo
- put škole ― to school
- Vozimo se put sela. ― We are driving toward the village.
- Krenuo sam put grada. ― I went toward the city.
Etymology 4
From pȗt (“road, path, way”).
Cognated with sputnik, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian спу́тник (spútnik, “fellow traveller”).
Alternative forms
- (genitive plural) pútā
Pronunciation
Adverb
pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)
- time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)
- prvi put — the first time, for the first time
- drugi put — the second time, for the second time; another time
- ovaj put — this time
- sljedeći/sledeći put — the next time
- posljednji/poslednji put — the last time
- po stoti put — for the hundredth time
- svaki put — every time
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English foot.
Noun
put
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- sh:Body
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