puter

See also: Puter, putër, and 'puter

English

Alternative forms

• 'puter

Noun

puter (plural puters)

1. (slang) A computer.

Anagrams

• Putre, erupt, reput, upter

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ter/, [ˈpʊt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ter/, [ˈpuːt̪er]

Adjective

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

1. rotten, decaying
2. crumbling, friable

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
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

Synonyms

• (rotten): pūtidus, putridus

Derived terms

• putreō
• putrefaciō

Descendants

• Galician: podre
• Italian: putre
• Kabuverdianu: podri
• Papiamentu: putrí
• Portuguese: podre
• Spanish: podre

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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

puter m or f

1. indefinite plural of pute

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puter f

1. indefinite plural of pute

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

Noun

pȕter m (Cyrillic spelling пу̏тер)

1. butter

Declension

Declension of puter

	singular	plural
nominative	puter	putri
genitive	putra	putara
dative	putru	putrima
accusative	puter	putre
vocative	putre	putri
locative	putru	putrima
instrumental	putrom	putrima