English

Proper noun

Puter

1. A particular dialect of Romansch.

Anagrams

• erupt, Putre

German

Noun

Puter m ‎(genitive Puters, plural Puter, feminine Pute)

1. a male turkey

Declension

Synonyms

• Truthahn

English

Alternative forms

• 'puter

Noun

puter ‎(plural puters)

1. (slang) A computer.

Anagrams

• erupt, Putre

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pu-; compare Sanskrit पूयति ‎(pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πῦον ‎(pûon, “discharge from a sore”), πύθω ‎(púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 ‎(fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl ‎(“foul”), perhaps ultimately echoic of a natural exclamation of disgust or abhorrence.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ter/, [ˈpʊ.tɛr]

Adjective

puter m ‎(feminine putris, neuter putre); third declension

1. rotten, decaying
2. crumbling, friable

Inflection

Third declension, masculine nominative singular in -er, neuter in -e.

Derived terms

• putreō

Related terms

• putrō

Synonyms

• (rotten): pūtidus, putridus

Descendants

• Galician: podre
• Italian: putre
• Portuguese: podre
• Spanish: podre

References

• puter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

puter m, f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puter f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Butter.

Noun

pȕter m ‎(Cyrillic spelling пу̏тер)

1. butter

Declension