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English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French putride or directly from Latin putridus (“rotten, decayed”), from putreō (“I am rotten or putrid”), from puter (“rotten, decaying, putrid”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
putrid (comparative more putrid, superlative most putrid)
- Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
putrid flesh; putrid matter; putrid meat
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2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:[…] vast quantities of putrid whale flesh were blasted into the sky
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
- Synonym: malodorous
putrid smell; putrid odor
- Vile, disgusting.
- Morally corrupt.
- Totally objectionable.
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Translations
rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction
- 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)
- Czech: shnilý (cs), hnijící, zkažený (cs)
- Dutch: verderfelijk (nl), rottend (nl)
- Finnish: mätä (fi)
- French: putride (fr)
- German: verfault (de), verdorben (de), übelriechend, faulig (de), aasig (de)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls)
- Greek: σάπιος (el) (sápios)
- Ancient: σαπρός (saprós)
- Hungarian: rothadt (hu), rothadó (hu)
- Ido: putranta (io), putrinta (io)
- Japanese: 腐敗した (ja) (ふはいした, fuhai shita)
- Latin: puter m
- Macedonian: гнил (gnil), ра́спаднат (ráspadnat)
- Maori: ero, piro, kerakera, pīhonga, pirau, kōhangohango
- Plautdietsch: ful
- Portuguese: pútrido (pt)
- Romanian: putred (ro)
- Russian: гнию́щий (ru) (gnijúščij) (rotting), гнило́й (ru) (gnilój) (rotten)
- Spanish: putrefacto (es)
- Yiddish: פֿױל (foyl)
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Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin putridus. Compare Romanian putred.
Adjective
putrid m (feminine singular putridã, masculine plural putridz, feminine plural putridi or putride)
- rotten, putrid, decayed, spoiled
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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 and neuter plural putride)
- (literary, uncommon) putrid
- Synonym: putred
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