putain

• p*tain (censored)
• putaing (Meridional)

Inherited from Old French putain, originally the oblique case of pute (“dirty woman”) formed with the suffix -ain, from Vulgar Latin pūtta, from Latin pūta (“girl”). Compare with salope, Italian puttana, Spanish puta.

• IPA^(key): /py.tɛ̃/

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• Homophone: putains

putain f (plural putains)

1. (vulgar, dated) whore, hooker

   Synonym: pute

2. (derogatory, vulgar, slang, dated) bitch, cow (an unpleasant woman)

   Synonym: pute

• →? English: poontang, pootang

putain

1. (vulgar) fuck, fucking hell, bloody hell

   Synonyms: (euphemistic) punaise, (euphemistic) purée

• “putain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French putain.

putain f (plural putains)

1. (Jersey) whore

   Synonym: chèrch'rêsse

From pute with the suffix -ain, -aine, or from Vulgar Latin pūtta/*pūttāna, from Latin pūta (“girl”).^[1] Compare Old Occitan putan(a). Latin putta (“prostitute”) is attested in the sixth century (Gregory of Tours). The change of meaning from "girl" to "prostitute" is due to euphemism, a process that is well known to other periods and languages.^[2]

putain oblique singular, f (oblique plural putains, nominative singular pute, nominative plural putains)

1. (vulgar) whore, prostitute, bitch

• French: pute, putain
• → Welsh: putain
• → Friulian: putan, putane
• → Italian: puttana (see there for further descendants)
• → Aromanian: putanã
• → Piedmontese: putan-a

putain m

1. genitive singular of putan (“button, key”)

From Old French putain, originally the oblique case of pute (“dirty woman”) formed with the suffix -ain, from Vulgar Latin putta, from Latin puta (“girl”). Cognate with French putain, Italian puttana.

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpɨ̞tai̯n/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpɨ̞tɛn/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪtai̯n/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪtɛn/

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putain f (plural puteiniaid)

1. prostitute, harlot, whore

   Synonyms: hŵr, dihiren

• puteinllyd, puteinaidd (“whorish”)
• puteindy (“brothel”)
• puteinio (“to whore”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “putain”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “putain”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies