puteus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to paveō, pudeō, repudium, paviō, and tripudium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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

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

Related terms

puticulī

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: puts
- Romanian: puț
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pozzo
- Sardinian: pussu, putzu
- Sicilian: puzzu
North Italian:
- Friulian: poç
- Romansch: puoz
- Venetan: poso, poç
Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
  - Catalan: pou
  - Occitan: potz
- Old French: puis
  - French: puits
  - Franc-Comtois: pouche
  - Norman: pyit
  - Walloon: pousse
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: pozu
- Mirandese: poço
- Old Galician-Portuguese: poço
  - Galician: pozo
  - Portuguese: poço
- Old Spanish: poço
  - Spanish: pozo
Borrowings:
- → 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