putrid

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *puH-der.

Latin puter

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *-ējō

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ēō

Latin -eō

Latin putreō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin putridusder.

Old French putridebor.

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Latin putridusbor.

Middle English

English putrid

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French putride or directly from Latin putridus (“rotten, decayed”), from putreō (“to be rotten or putrid”), from puter (“rotten, decaying, putrid”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.tɹɪd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.tɹɪd/

Adjective

putrid (comparative more putrid, superlative most putrid)

1. Rotting, rotten, putrefying. [from 14th c.]

   putrid flesh; putrid matter; putrid meat

   • 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:

     Quake guzzell dogs, that live on putrid slime.

   • 2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:

     […] vast quantities of putrid whale flesh were blasted into the sky

2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction; especially, having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.

   Synonyms: fetid, foul, foul-smelling, malodorous, stinking

   a putrid sore; putrid odor

3. Vile, disgusting.
4. (figurative) Morally corrupt.
5. Totally objectionable (Can we add an example for this sense? (Is it different from "vile, disgusting"?)).

Derived terms

• putrid fever
• putridly
• putridness
• putrid sore throat
• semiputrid
• unputrid

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *puH- (0 c, 19 e)

Translations

rotting, rotten, in a state of putrefaction

• Aragonese: podriu
• Asturian: podre (ast)
• Bulgarian: гнил (bg) (gnil), разложен (bg) (razložen)
• Catalan: pútrid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腐爛的 / 腐烂的 (zh) (fǔlàn de), 腐敗的 / 腐败的 (zh) (fǔbài de)

• Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: shnilý (cs), hnijící, zkažený (cs)
• Dutch: verderfelijk (nl), rottend (nl)
• Esperanto: putra (eo)
• Extremaduran: puiríu
• Fala: (lagarteiru, valverdeñu) pudríu, (mañegu) puiríu
• Finnish: mätä (fi)
• French: putride (fr)
• Galician: podre (gl)
• German: verfault (de), verdorben (de), übelriechend (de), faulig (de), aasig (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls)
• Greek: σάπιος (el) (sápios)

  Ancient Greek: σαπρός (saprós)

• Hungarian: rothadt (hu), rothadó (hu)
• Ido: putranta (io), putrinta (io)
• Italian: putrido (it)
• Japanese: 腐敗した (ja) (ふはいした, fuhai shita)
• Latin: puter m
• Leonese: podre
• Macedonian: гнил (gnil), ра́спаднат (ráspadnat)
• Māori: ero, piro, kerakera, pīhonga, pirau, kōhangohango
• Occitan: poirit (oc)
• Plautdietsch: ful
• Polish: zgniły (pl)
• Portuguese: pútrido (pt)
• Romanian: putred (ro)
• Russian: гнию́щий (ru) (gnijúščij) (rotting), гнило́й (ru) (gnilój) (rotten)
• Spanish: putrefacto (es), pútrido (es), podrido (es)
• Thai: เน่าเหม็น
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: гнили́й (uk) (hnylýj)
• Yiddish: פֿױל (foyl)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} booderinin

See also

• rotten
• foul
• odor

References

• “pū̆trid, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Anagrams

• turpid

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• putridu, prutid, prudit

Etymology

From Latin putridus. Compare Romanian putred.

Adjective

putrid m (feminine singular putridã, masculine plural putridz, feminine plural putridi or putride)

1. rotten, putrid, decayed, spoiled

Derived terms

• putridzãscu
• putridzãnji

See also

• ciuruc

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French putride, from Latin putridus. Doublet of the inherited putred.

Adjective

putrid m or n (feminine singular putridă, masculine plural putrizi, feminine/neuter plural putride)

1. (literary, uncommon) putrid

   Synonym: putred

Declension

Declension of putrid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	putrid		putridă	putrizi	putride
	definite	putridul		putrida	putrizii	putridele
genitive- dative	indefinite	putrid		putride	putrizi	putride
	definite	putridului		putridei	putrizilor	putridelor