puter

See also: Puter, putër, and 'puter

English

A kitten stuck inside of a puter (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• 'puter

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.təɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʉː.tə/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

puter (plural puters)

2. (childish, Internet slang, often endearing) Clipping of computer

   Synonym: comp

   I love my puter. All my friends are inside it.

Anagrams

• Putre, erupt, reput, upter

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese putĕr.

Verb

puter

1. to turn

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *puH-; compare Sanskrit पूयति (pū́yati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πύον (púon, “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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.ter]

Adjective

puter (feminine putris, neuter putre); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. rotten, decaying

   cadāver putre ― a rotten corpse

2. crumbling, friable

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	puter	putris	putre		putrēs		putria
genitive	putris				putrium
dative	putrī				putribus
accusative	putrem		putre		putrīs putrēs		putria
ablative	putrī				putribus
vocative	puter	putris	putre		putrēs		putria

Synonyms

• (rotten): pūtidus, putridus

Derived terms

• putreō
• putrefaciō

Descendants

• Asturian: podre
• English: putrid
• Galician: podre
• Italian: putre
• Kabuverdianu: podri
• Papiamentu: putrí
• Portuguese: podre
• Spanish: podre
• → Proto-Brythonic: *pudr
  • Middle Welsh: pwdyr
    • Welsh: pwdr

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

Noun

puter m or f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puter f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed 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-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).

Noun

pȕter m inan (Cyrillic spelling пу̏тер)

1. butter

Declension

Declension of puter

	singular	plural
nominative	puter	putri, puteri
genitive	putra, putera	putara
dative	putru, puteru	putrima, puterima
accusative	puter	putre, putere
vocative	putre, putere	putri, puteri
locative	putru, puteru	putrima, puterima
instrumental	putrom, puterom	putrima, puterima