puteus

From Proto-Indo-European *pēu-, *pyu-, *pū- (“to cut, strike, hit”).^[1] Compare paveō, pudeō, repudium, paviō, and tripudium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.te.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.t̪e.us]

puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension

1. pit, dungeon
2. well
3. cistern

Second-declension noun.

• puteal
• Puteolī

• puticulī

• “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