puto
English
Etymology
From Tagalog (and other Philippine languages) puto, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
puto (plural putos or puto)
- (Philippines) A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.
- (Puto (bug)), a genus of scale insects
Anagrams
Bikol Central
Etymology
Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
púto
See also
Cebuano
Etymology
From Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
púto
Esperanto
Etymology
From Latin puteus. Not related to putino.
Pronunciation
Noun
puto (accusative singular puton, plural putoj, accusative plural putojn)
- 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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpu.toː/, [ˈpʊt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.to/, [ˈpuːt̪o]
Etymology 1
Either from putus + -ō, 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
- (very rare) to clean, cleanse
- to trim, prune, lop
- (figurative) to arrange, settle
- (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.
- Homō sum, hūmānī nihil ā mē aliēnum putō.
- (figurative) to judge, suspect, suppose
- (figurative) to ponder, consider, think about
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Synonyms
- (clean): abstergeō, pūrgō, luō, tergeō, effingō
- (lop): amputō, discindō, intercidō, incīdō, discerpō
- (think): cōgitō, sentio, arbitror, existimo, opinor, credo
- (consider): considero, perpendō, reputo, arbitror, existimo, iudico, censeo, cogito, reor
- (ponder): reflectō, ponderō, pendō, cōnsīderō, dēlīberō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, dubitō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō, trahō, versō
Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
putō
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[1], 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
- the result has surprised me; I was not prepared for this development: res aliter cecidit ac putaveram
Pangasinan
Etymology
Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
puto
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)
- (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)
- (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[2], retrieved 2024-07-16:
- (Portugal, colloquial) son
- Synonym: filho
- O meu puto está sempre a fazer asneiras.
- My son is always misbehaving.
- (Brazil, vulgar) a jerk; an unlikable, obnoxious person
- Synonym: quengo
- Aquele cara ali é um puto.
- That dude over there isn't worth anything.
- (vulgar, Brazil) a libertine man
- (vulgar, Brazil) a male prostitute; a manwhore
- (vulgar, Rio Grande do Sul) a fag; a gay, homosexual
- (vulgar, Brazil) a small quantity of money
- Eu estou sem nenhum puto.
- I don’t have any money.
Pronoun
puto
- (Portugal, colloquial) (indefinite) nothing (not any thing; no thing)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫto.
Pronunciation
Noun
pȕto n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏то)
Declension
Noun
puto (Cyrillic spelling путо)
References
- “puto” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫ̀to.
Pronunciation
Noun
puto n
- 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, 2024
Spanish
Etymology
From puta.
Pronunciation
Adjective
puto (feminine puta, masculine plural putos, feminine plural putas)
- (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[3], 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", [he] said last week, just before it crumbled [...]
Derived terms
Noun
puto m (plural putos, feminine puta, feminine plural putas)
- (vulgar) man-whore
- Synonym: prostituto
- (vulgar, derogatory) faggot
- Synonym: maricón
- (vulgar, derogatory) asshole, fucker, motherfucker
Further reading
- “puto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili
Pronunciation
Noun
puto (ma class, plural maputo)
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay putu, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”). Compare Indonesian putu.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈputo/ [ˈpuː.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -uto
- Syllabification: pu‧to
Noun
puto (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆᜓ)
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
Etymology 2
Noun
putó
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