puter

• 'puter

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

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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 a stem *pŭtri-, commonly considered a close cognate to Old Irish othar m (“sickness”) (from a stem pŭtro-), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“rotten, foul”)^[1] (also the source of Latin pūs (“pus, foul matter”) and pūteō (“to be rotten”) and English foul; see links for additional cognates).

It is uncertain why *pŭtri- and *pŭtro- have short *ŭ, since the rules for the evolution of preconsonantal Proto-Indo-European *-uH- in Italic and Celtic are disputed. Proposed explanations include:

• shortening of long vowels in a pretonic syllable (*puH-trí- > *pūtrí- > putri-)^[2] (sometimes called "Dybo's Law"). As there are a number of apparent counterexamples to this sound change, it is often proposed that it was only regular in certain conditions, but there is no agreement on what those conditions were.
• simplification of a laryngeal before a two-consonant *-TC- sequence,^[2] or more specifically, before a stop + resonant + vowel (sometimes called the "Weather Rule", "Wetter-Regel" or "WR")
• a variant root form *pHu-.^[2] (However, Zair 2012 argues that the sequences *CHiC-/*CHuC- probably underwent metathesis to *CiHC-/*CuHC- in Proto-Indo-European.^[1])

Like all other Latin three-termination third-declension adjectives, the nominative forms were affected by a combination of sound changes and analogy. The masculine nominative singular puter (rare; found in Varro and Ovid) would be the regular phonetic outcome of an earlier form *putr̥s (with syllabic *r̥), from syncope of original putris. (Compare ter from Proto-Indo-European *trís.) It is also declined as a two-termination adjective with the alternative masculine nominative singular putris (e.g. "lapis ipse gracilis et putris", Pliny Epistulae 10.39).

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

puter or putris (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 Cornish: podar
    • Cornish: poder
  • 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