puter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːtə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpjutəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

puter (plural puters)

1. Alternative form of 'puter (“computer”)

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 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) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ter/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ter/,

Adjective

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

1. rotten, decaying
2. crumbling, friable

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Synonyms

• (rotten): pūtidus, putridus

Derived terms

• putreō
• putrefaciō

Descendants

• 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 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