put
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
Alternative formsEdit
- putt (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: po͝ot, IPA(key): /pʊt/, [pʰʊʔt]
Audio - 'to put' (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: putt (accents without foot-strut split)
- Rhymes: -ʊt
VerbEdit
put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)
- To place something somewhere.
- She put her books on the table.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess[1]:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- 1670, John Milton, “The [First] Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC, page 11:
- Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,
- Put your house in order!
- He is putting all his energy into this one task.
- She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.
- (finance) To exercise a put option.
- He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
- To express something in a certain manner.
- When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
- 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter:
- All this is ingeniously and ably put.
- (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, editors, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, John 15:13, page 280:
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- to put a question; to put a case
- 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
- Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
- Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
- (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, line 386:
- Thank him who puts me loath to this revenge
- 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway[1].
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | (to) put | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | put | put | |
2nd-person singular | put, puttest† | put, puttedst† | |
3rd-person singular | puts, putteth† | put | |
plural | put | ||
subjunctive | put | put | |
imperative | put | — | |
participles | putting | put |
Derived termsEdit
- forthput
- input
- not to put too fine a point on it
- output
- put-up (adjective)
- putable
- put about
- put across
- put a gun to someone's head
- put aside
- put a sock in it
- put away
- put back
- put by
- put case
- put down
- put end
- put facts on the ground
- put forth
- put forward
- put in
- put in place
- put in practice
- put into
- put off
- put on
- put on airs
- put on a pedestal
- put one in hospital
- put one over
- put one's cards on the table
- put one's house in order
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- put one's name in the hat
- put out
- put out feelers
- put over
- put paid to
- put someone in mind of
- put someone up to something
- puttable
- put the brakes on
- put the fear of God into
- put through
- put to
- put together
- put to rest
- put to sea
- put two and two together
- put under
- put up
- put upon
- put up with
- put wise
- put with
- put words in someone's mouth
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
NounEdit
put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)
- (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- (finance) Short for put option.
- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- the put of a ball
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
- The Stag's was a Forc'd put, and a Chance rather than a Choice.
- (uncountable) An old card game.
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
- Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
- Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- call
- option
Etymology 2Edit
Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
put (plural puts)
- (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
- 1733, James Bramston, The Man of Taste:
- Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
And of lost hospitality complain.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 244:
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.
- 1870, Frederic Harrison, “The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair,”, in Fortnightly Review:
- Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
put (plural puts)
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
- And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
put (plural putte)
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
put
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.
NounEdit
put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
put
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
- imperative of putten
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
put
- (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
put
- third-person singular past historic of pouvoir
KalashaEdit
NounEdit
put
- Alternative spelling of putr
LatvianEdit
VerbEdit
put
RomanianEdit
VerbEdit
put
- inflection of puți:
Scottish GaelicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.
VerbEdit
put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).
NounEdit
put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)
- young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)
Etymology 3Edit
Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *pūto (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit बुद्बुद (budbuda, “bubble”).
NounEdit
put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)
- (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
- corpulent person; any bulging thing
- shovelful, sod, spadeful
- (medicine) bruised swelling
MutationEdit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
put | phut |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- Edward Dwelly (1911), “put”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “put”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 284
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Slavic *pǫtь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pántis, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pȗt m (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)
- road
- put za Sarajevo ― road to Sarajevo
- Gd(j)e vodi ovaj put? ― Where does this road lead?
- way
- ovim putem ― this way
- ići pravim putem ― to go the right way
- vodeni put ― waterway
- ići svojim putem ― to go one's own way
- stati nekome na put ― to stand in somebody's way
- Teret je na putu. ― The cargo is on the way.
- Miči mi se s puta! ― Get out of my way!
- najkraći put do bolnice ― the shortest way to the hospital
- na pola puta do škole ― halfway to the school
- path
- krčiti put ― to clear a path
- put do usp(j)eha ― the path to success
- trip, journey, travel
- ići na put ― to go on a trip
- biti na putu ― to be on a trip
- put oko sv(ij)eta ― a trip around the world
- poslovni put ― a business trip
- (figurative and idiomatic senses) method, means
- sudskim putem ― by legal means; through court order
- službenim/zvaničnim putem ― through official channels
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | pȗt | pútovi / pútevi / púti |
genitive | púta | pútēvā / pútōvā |
dative | putu | pútovima / pútevima / pútima |
accusative | pȗt | pútove / púteve / púte |
vocative | pute | pútovi / pútevi / púti |
locative | putu | pútovima /pútevima / pútima |
instrumental | pútom / pútem | pútovima /pútevima / pútima |
Further readingEdit
- “put” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Slavic *plъtь.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
pȕt f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏т)
- complexion, skin hue, tan
- sv(ij)etla put ― fair complexion/tan
- tamna put ― dark complexion/tan
- crna put ― black complexion/tan
- body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities
- mlada put ― a young body
- gladna put ― a hungry body
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- “put” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Etymology 3Edit
From pȗt (“road, path, way”).
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т) (+ genitive case)
- to, toward
- put Sarajeva ― toward Sarajevo
- put škole ― to school
- Vozimo se put sela. ― We are driving toward the village.
- Krenuo sam put grada. ― I went toward the city.
Etymology 4Edit
From pȗt (“road, path, way”).
Alternative formsEdit
- (genitive plural) pútā
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
pȗt (Cyrillic spelling пу̑т)
- time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)
- prvi put ― the first time, for the first time
- drugi put ― the second time, for the second time; another time
- ovaj put ― this time
- sljedeći/sledeći put ― the next time
- posljednji/poslednji put ― the last time
- po stoti put ― for the hundredth time
- svaki put ― every time
Further readingEdit
- “put” in Hrvatski jezični portal
SpanishEdit
NounEdit
put m (plural puts)
Further readingEdit
- “put”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tok PisinEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
put
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Persian بت (“idol”), from Middle Persian bwt' (“Buddha, idol”), ultimately from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
put (definite accusative putu, plural putlar)
- idol (object or thing of spiritual worship)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | put | |
Definite accusative | putu | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | put | putlar |
Definite accusative | putu | putları |
Dative | puta | putlara |
Locative | putta | putlarda |
Ablative | puttan | putlardan |
Genitive | putun | putların |