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See also: путо

English

Etymology

From Tagalog (and other Philippine languages) puto, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, a Tamil dish).

Pronunciation

Noun

puto (plural putos or puto)

  1. (Philippines) A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.
  2. (Puto (bug)), a genus of scale insects

Anagrams

Bikol Central

Etymology

Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, a Tamil dish).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧to
  • IPA(key): /ˈputo/

Noun

púto

  1. rice cake

See also

Cebuano

Etymology

From Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, a Tamil dish).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pu‧to
  • IPA(key): /ˈputo/

Noun

púto

  1. a rice cake cooked by boiling or steaming rice
  2. a similar dish that uses egg whites and flour

Esperanto

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo

Etymology

From Latin puteus. Not related to putino.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uto
  • Hyphenation: pu‧to

Noun

puto (accusative singular puton, plural putoj, accusative plural putojn)

  1. A well; a hole sunk into the ground for obtaining water.
    Tiu ĉi puto estas proksimume 50 metrojn profunda.This well is about 50 meters deep.

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Either from putus +‎ , or else from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (to strike), which would make it cognate with puteus. For sense development, compare dēcīdō.

    Verb

    putō (present infinitive putāre, perfect active putāvī, supine putātum); first conjugation

    1. (very rare) to clean, cleanse
    2. to trim, prune, lop
    3. (figurative) to arrange, settle
    4. (figurative) to value, esteem, deem, regard, consider
      • 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1.77:
        Homō sum, hūmānī nihil ā mē aliēnum putō.
        I am a human, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.
      • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 12.4:
        Hoc salsum esse putās?
        Do you think that's funny?
      • Publilius Syrus  :
        Quamvis non rectum quod iuvat rectum putes.
        It may not be right but if it pays think it so.
    5. (figurative) to judge, suspect, suppose
      • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Life of Vespasian 23 4:
        Prima quoque morbi accessione, Vae, inquit, puto, deus fio.
        As death drew near, said, Dear me, I suspect I'm becoming a god.
    6. (figurative) to ponder, consider, think about
    Conjugation

    1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

    Synonyms
    Antonyms
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Adjective

    putō

    1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of putus

    References

    • puto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • puto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • puto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • the result has surprised me; I was not prepared for this development: res aliter cecidit ac putaveram
      • I think that..: in hac sum sententia, ut...putem
      • to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare
      • to balance accounts with some one: rationes putare cum aliquo

    Pangasinan

    Etymology

    Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, a Tamil dish).

    Pronunciation

    • Hyphenation: pu‧to
    • IPA(key): /ˈputo/,

    Noun

    puto

    1. white rice cake

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    From Old Galician-Portuguese puto, from Latin pūtus (boy). Cognate with Italian putto (child).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    puto (feminine puta, masculine plural putos, feminine plural putas, comparable, comparative mais puto, superlative o mais puto or putíssimo, diminutive putinho, augmentative putão or putaço)

    1. (Brazil, informal, vulgar, colloquial) furious, angry, annoyed, irritated
      Eu estou puto com ela.
      I'm very angry with her.
      Minha mãe ficou puta com a situação.
      My mom became angry with the situation.

    Derived terms

    Noun

    puto m (plural putos)

    1. (Portugal, informal) kid
      Synonym: chavalo
      Estava lá um puto a fazer o que não devia.
      There was a kid doing things he shouldn't.
      • 2024 July 14, Rui Antunes, “Espanha tetracampeã: No pátio do Europeu, a bola é dos putos Nico e Lamine (e a taça também) [Four-time champion Spain: In the European courtyard, the ball belongs to the kids Nico and Lamine (and the cup too)]”, in Visão, retrieved 2024-07-16:
    2. (Portugal, colloquial) son
      Synonym: filho
      O meu puto está sempre a fazer asneiras.
      My son is always misbehaving.
    3. (Brazil, vulgar) a jerk; an unlikable, obnoxious person
      Synonym: quengo
      Aquele cara ali é um puto.
      That dude over there isn't worth anything.
    4. (vulgar, Brazil) a libertine man
    5. (vulgar, Brazil) a male prostitute; a manwhore
    6. (vulgar, Rio Grande do Sul) a fag; a gay, homosexual
    7. (vulgar, Brazil) a small quantity of money
      Eu estou sem nenhum puto.
      I don’t have any money.

    Pronoun

    puto

    1. (Portugal, colloquial) (indefinite) nothing (not any thing; no thing)
      Synonyms: nada, (colloquial) nicles
      Não entendi puto.
      I didn't understand anything.

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫto.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /pûto/
    • Hyphenation: pu‧to

    Noun

    pȕto n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏то)

    1. pastern
      Synonym: pùtilo

    Declension

    Noun

    puto (Cyrillic spelling путо)

    1. vocative singular of puta

    References

    • puto”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

    Slovak

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫ̀to.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    puto n

    1. bond (emotional)

    Declension

    Further reading

    • puto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

    Spanish

    Etymology

    From puta.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    puto (feminine puta, masculine plural putos, feminine plural putas)

    1. (vulgar) fucking, goddamn
      • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 11:
        Me jode ir al Kronen los sábados por la tarde porque está siempre hasta el culo de gente. No hay ni una puta mesa libre y hace un calor insoportable.
        Going to Kronen on Saturdays pisses me off because it's always chock full of people. There isn't a single fucking free table and it's unbearably hot.
      • 2022 May 17, Álvaro Sánchez, “Los sueños rotos de luna, la criptomoneda que colapsó en tres días: “Parecía una apuesta segura””, in El País, retrieved 2022-05-18:
        “Kwon es un puto visionario, el Elon Musk del futuro”, decía la semana pasada, justo antes de su derrumbe [...]
        "Kwon is a fucking visionary, the Elon Musk of the future", said last week, just before it crumbled

    Derived terms

    Noun

    puto m (plural putos, feminine puta, feminine plural putas)

    1. (vulgar) man-whore
      Synonym: prostituto
    2. (vulgar, derogatory) faggot
      Synonym: maricón
    3. (vulgar, derogatory) asshole, fucker, motherfucker
      Synonyms: culero, pendejo

    Further reading

    Swahili

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    puto class V (plural maputo class VI)

    1. balloon
      Synonyms: kibofu, baluni

    Tagalog

    Tagalog Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia tl

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Malay putu, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, a Tamil dish). Compare Indonesian putu.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    puto (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆᜓ)

    1. puto (steamed rice cake)
    2. (colloquial) piece of cake (simple or easy job)
      Synonyms: sisiw, mani

    Derived terms

    See also

    Further reading

    • puto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

    Waray-Waray

    Etymology 1

    Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, a Tamil dish).

    Noun

    puto

    1. white rice cake

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    putó

    1. youngest child; last born child