puteus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly a doublet of paveō, pudeō, repudium, paviō and tripudium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpʊt̪eʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpuːt̪eus]

Noun

puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension

1. pit, dungeon
2. well
3. cistern

Declension

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

• puteal
• Puteolī

Related terms

• puticulī

Descendants

• Aromanian: puts
• Asturian: pozu
• Catalan: pou
• Old French: puis
  • French: puits
  • Franc-Comtois: pouche
  • Norman: pyit
  • Walloon: pousse
• Friulian: poç
• Italian: pozzo
• Mirandese: poço
• Occitan: potz
• Old Galician-Portuguese: poço
  • Galician: pozo
  • 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

• “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