putrescent
English
Etymology
Attested since circa 1730, from Latin pūtrēscēns (“rotting”), present participle of pūtrēscō (“rot”).
Adjective
putrescent (comparative more putrescent, superlative most putrescent)
- Becoming putrid; putrefying.
- 1791, George Fordyce, A treatise on the digestion of food, page 68:
- When it is combined with that quantity of water with which it is found united in the gall-bladder, it is not more putrescent than the serum of the blood
- 1885, Henry Stopes, Malt and malting, an historical, scientific, and practical treatise, page 48:
- This same reason accounts to a considerable extent for the fact, that soft steeping liquor, if seldom changed, becomes much more putrescent than hard water retained with the same barleys for a similar period in cistern.
- 2009, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Introduction to the Study of Fungi, Their Organography,, page 132:
- although in some instances these spores are elliptical and smooth, they are often coarsely warted and angular. The group in itself seems to be a very natural one, for the species are all soft and fleshy, and even more putrescent than
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Translations
becoming putrid
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French
Adjective
putrescent (feminine putrescente, masculine plural putrescents, feminine plural putrescentes)
- putrescent
Further reading
- “putrescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
putrēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of putrēscō
Romanian
Etymology
From French putrescent.
Adjective
putrescent m or n (feminine singular putrescentă, masculine plural putrescenți, feminine and neuter plural putrescente)
- putrescent
Declension
Declension of putrescent
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | putrescent | putrescentă | putrescenți | putrescente | ||
| definite | putrescentul | putrescenta | putrescenții | putrescentele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | putrescent | putrescente | putrescenți | putrescente | ||
| definite | putrescentului | putrescentei | putrescenților | putrescentelor | |||