Puteus, putei, m. g. Plin. A well or pitte.Capaces putei.Ouid.Iugis puteus, Vide Iugis in IVGVM.Patens puteus. Hor. Pereonis puteus iuges aquæ. Hora. A fountaine alway running and neuer drie.Abijcere se in puteos.Cic.Haurire aquam de puteo.Cic.To draw water out of a well.Puteum neutro genere. Vlpian.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pŭtĕus, i, m. (neutr. collat. form of the plur. pŭtĕa, ōrum, Varr. ap. Non. 217, 4) [root pu-, to cleanse; whence also purus, putus, purgo], a well: puteum fodere, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 32: ex puteis jugibus aquam calidam trahi, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25; id. Div. 1, 50, 112: virgines se in puteos abjecisse, id. Prov. Cons. 3, 6; Plin. 9, 25, 41, 80; 37, 9, 43, 127; Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 25; 5, 6, 25: putei perennes, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 15: puteum vitare patentem, id. ib. 2, 2, 135 et saep. —Of a cistern, Auct. B. Alex. 5 fin.—Prov.: in puteum conicere,
to throw away
, Petr. 42.—II.Transf., a pit, Verg. G. 2, 231; for storing grain in, Varr. R. R. 1, 57, 2; in mines,
