WordInfo for: "puteo"

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Lemmata
- puteo (external link: puteo)
- puteus (external link: puteus)

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Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
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Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- puteo
  - Puteo, putes, putui, putêre. Hora.
    To stincke: to haue an ill sauour. Aliquando desinet putere. Quint. Diurno mero putere. Hora.
- puteus
  - 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
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  - pūtĕo, ēre (no perf. or sup.), 2, v. n. [Sanscr. root pu-, to stink; cf. pus; Gr. pu=on].
    I. To stink (cf. putesco), Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 545, 16: putet aper, Hor. S. 2, 2, 42: putere diurno mero, id. Ep. 1, 19, 11; Pers. 3, 73.—
    II. To be rotten, putrid, Plaut. Most. 1, 2, 67 (al. putrent).—Hence, pū-tens, entis, P. a., stinking, Aldh. Laud. Virg. 35; Scrib. Comp. 186.
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- puteus
  - 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, a pit, shaft, Plin. 33, 4, 21, 68; 33, 6, 31, 95; an air-shaft, air-hole, Vitr. 8, 6; a dungeon for slaves, Plaut. Aul. 2, 5, 21; 2, 7, 3; Col. 1, 6.
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