puteus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *paw- (to strike). Compare with Latin paviō, paveō.

Pronunciation

Noun

puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension

  1. pit, dungeon
  2. well
  3. cistern

Declension

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Derived terms

  • puticulī

Descendants

  • Aromanian: puts
  • Asturian: pozu
  • Catalan: pou
  • Old French: puis
  • Friulian: poç
  • Italian: pozzo
  • Occitan: potz
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: poço
  • Romanian: puț
  • Romansch: puoz
  • Sardinian: pussu, putzu
  • Sicilian: puzzu
  • Old Spanish: poço
  • 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
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