puter

• 'puter

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.təɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjʉː.tə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

puter (plural puters)

2. (childish, Internet slang, often endearing) Clipping of computer

   Synonym: comp

   I love my puter. All my friends are inside it.

• Putre, erupt, reput, upter

From Old Javanese putĕr.

puter

1. to turn

From Proto-Indo-European *puH-; compare Sanskrit पूयति (pū́yati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon, “discharge from a sore”), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”) (whence English foul), from the same root.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.t̪er]

puter (feminine putris, neuter putre); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. rotten, decaying

   cadāver putre ― a rotten corpse

2. crumbling, friable

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

• (rotten): pūtidus, putridus

• putreō
• putrefaciō

• Asturian: podre
• English: putrid
• Galician: podre
• Italian: putre
• Kabuverdianu: podri
• Papiamentu: putrí
• Portuguese: podre
• Spanish: podre
• → Proto-Brythonic: *pudr
  • Middle Welsh: pwdyr
    • Welsh: pwdr

• “puter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

puter m or f

1. indefinite plural of pute

puter f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Borrowed from German Butter (pronounced with initial unaspirated [p] in an Austro-Bavarian accent), from Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).

pȕter m inan (Cyrillic spelling пу̏тер)

1. butter