puteus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”). Compare with Latin paviō, paveō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpʊt̪eʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.te.us/, [ˈpuːt̪eus]
Noun
puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension
- pit, dungeon
- well
- cistern
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- Norman: pyit
- Walloon: pousse
- Friulian: poç
- Italian: pozzo
- Occitan: potz
- Old Portuguese: poço
- Galician: pozo
- Portuguese: poço
- Romanian: puț
- Romansch: puoz
- Sardinian: pussu, putzu
- Sicilian: puzzu
- Spanish: pozo
- Venetian: 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