Latin edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. Possibly a doublet of paveō, pudeō, repudium, paviō and tripudium.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

puteus m (genitive puteī); second declension

  1. pit, dungeon
  2. well
  3. cistern

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative puteus puteī
Genitive puteī puteōrum
Dative puteō puteīs
Accusative puteum puteōs
Ablative puteō puteīs
Vocative putee puteī

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • 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