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Latin
Etymology
From pūteō (“I stink”, “I am rotten or putrid”) + -idus (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
Adjective
pūtidus (feminine pūtida, neuter pūtidum, comparative pūtidior, superlative pūtidissimus, adverb pūtidē); first/second-declension adjective
- (literally) rotten, decaying, spoiled, fetid
- (of a wound) festering, infected, purulent, suppurating
- (without the attendant notion of decay or infection) stinking, reeking, foul, mephitic
- (transferred senses):
- (in contemptuous language, of persons) old, half-rotten, withered, decrepit
- (of persons’ minds) addled, worn-out
- (of actions, utterances, etc.) tiresome, wearisome, objectionable, vexatious, offensive, disagreeable, disgusting
- (of written style, rhetorical composition, or pronunciation) unnatural, affected, stilted, pedantic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pūtĭdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “putidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pūtĭdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,281/3.
- “pūtidus” on page 1,526/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)