puteus

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly a doublet of paveō, pudeō, repudium, paviō and tripudium.

Pronunciation

Noun

puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension

  1. pit, dungeon
  2. well
  3. cistern

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative puteus puteī
Genitive puteī puteōrum
Dative puteō puteīs
Accusative puteum puteōs
Ablative puteō puteīs
Vocative putee puteī

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References

  • “puteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “puteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • puteus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • puteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “puteus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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