puteus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly a doublet of paveō, pudeō, repudium, paviō and tripudium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpʊt̪eʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpuːt̪eus]
Noun
[edit]puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | puteus | puteī |
| genitive | puteī | puteōrum |
| dative | puteō | puteīs |
| accusative | puteum | puteōs |
| ablative | puteō | puteīs |
| vocative | putee | puteī |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Aromanian: puts
- Asturian: pozu
- Catalan: pou
- Old French: puis
- Friulian: poç
- Italian: pozzo
- Mirandese: poço
- Occitan: potz
- Old Galician-Portuguese: poço
- Romanian: puț
- Romansch: puoz
- Sardinian: pussu, putzu
- Sicilian: puzzu
- Old Spanish: poço
- Spanish: pozo
- Venetan: poso, poç
- → Albanian: pus
- → Basque: putzu
- → Welsh: pydew
- → Proto-West Germanic: *puti (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- “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