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puta

See also: puța, puță, püta, púta, pútà, пута, and pụta

English edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish puta.

Noun edit

puta (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
    • 1988 February 12, Lawrence Bommer, “Extremeties/Talking With . . .”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]:
      Mastrosimone's (antiheroine?) Marjorie lets in a man who quickly drops the small talk, slams her to the floor, and almost smothers her with a pillow as he commands her to say "thank you," "I love you," and "I am your puta."
    • 2005, Eric Bogosian, Wasted Beauty, page 63:
      And we told you, man, we have not seen your puta sister.

Anagrams edit

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Catalan puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Noun edit

puta f (plural putes)

  1. whore (prostitute)

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

puta f (plural putes)

  1. (derogatory, vulgar) prostitute, whore, slut
  2. mischievous

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Cebuano edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation edit

  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun edit

puta

  1. (derogatory, vulgar) a prostitute
  2. (derogatory, vulgar) a slut
  3. (derogatory, vulgar) a bitch

Synonyms edit

French edit

Etymology edit

Probably borrowed from Spanish puta. It appeared first in rap texts. Doublet of pute.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

puta f (plural putas)

  1. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) bitch
    • 2019, Ninho (lyrics and music), “Maman ne le sait pas”, performed by Ninho:
      Dans la ville j’revends le cannabis, maman ne le sait pas
      J’recompte mes potes, tout près des haramistes, le canon d’vant la glace
      Les pneus qui crissent, on est revenus tirer sur ces fils de puta
      Et j’sais qu’Iblis veut pas m’voir m’en tirer, faut qu’j’m’éloigne de tout ça
      In the city I'm selling cannabis, mama don't know it
      I'm counting my buddies, close to the sinners, the gun in front of the mirror
      The tyres squealing, we're back to shoot those sons of bitches
      And I know Iblis don't want me to get away with it, I gotta get away from it all
  2. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) whore
  3. (slang, derogatory, vulgar) slut

Synonyms edit

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese puta, probably from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, variant of *puta, female form of *puttus, putus (“boy”), which is however a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

puta f (plural putas)

  1. (vulgar, derogatory) whore
    Synonym: prostituta
  2. (vulgar, derogatory) slut
    • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. 164;
      Iten Costança de Riba davia diso porlo dito juramento que feito avya que lle oyra diser que disera a dita Costança Vasques que era huna puta que posera as cornas ao marido
      Item, Constanza de Ribadavia said, by that oath that she had done, that she heard that said Constanza Vázquez was a slut that had put horns on her husband
  3. (vulgar, derogatory) bitch

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

puta m or f (plural putas)

  1. (vulgar) evil; inmoral
  2. (vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, freaking or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way, if the person is jealous
    Non puiden ir alá por causa dunha puta tormenta. ― I could not go there, because of a fucking storm.
    Tes unha puta sorte! ― You're so freaking lucky! / You're so freaking unlucky!

References edit

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “puta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  • “puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “puta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “puta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “puta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “puta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish puta, and Portuguese puta, French pute, putain and Italian puttana.

Noun edit

puta (plural putas)

  1. (vulgar) whore

Synonyms edit

Kabuverdianu edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese puta.

Noun edit

puta

  1. (slang) whore, slut, prostitute
  2. (slang) bitch

Latin edit

Etymology 1 edit

Imperative of putō (“think, consider, prune, trim”).

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

putā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of putō (“think!”)

Etymology 2 edit

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

puta (not comparable)

  1. suppose, for instance, namely
    Synonyms: ut puta, ecce puta, ecce, exemplī grātiā

Etymology 3 edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

puta

  1. inflection of putus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective edit

putā

  1. ablative feminine singular of putus

Lithuanian edit

Noun edit

puta f

  1. foam

Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

Noun edit

puta f animal

  1. (female) turkey (bird)
  2. turkey (meat)
Declension edit
Declension of puta
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative puta puśe puty
Genitive puty putowu putow
Dative puśe putoma putam
Accusative putu puśe puty
Instrumental putu putoma putami
Locative puśe putoma putach
Synonyms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

puta

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

References edit

  • Starosta, Manfred (1999) “puta”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Maori edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

Noun edit

puta

  1. hole
  2. anus

Verb edit

puta

  1. to pass through and out
  2. to graduate
  3. to run off; to escape
  4. to be born

Derived terms edit

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

puta f sg

  1. definite feminine singular of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Noun edit

puta f sg

  1. definite singular of pute

Old Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.

Noun edit

puta f

  1. whore
    Synonym: putaña
    • by 1325, Anonymous, Crónica de veinte Reyes , (ed. by Terrence A. Mannetter, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):
      llamar vos han fijo de puta, mas non fijo de traydor
      They shall call you son of a bitch, but not son of a traitor.

Descendants edit

  • Spanish: puta

Papiamentu edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

Noun edit

puta

  1. (vulgar, slang) whore, slut, prostitute
  2. (vulgar, slang) bitch

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation edit

  • Audio (Oporto, Portugal)(file)
  • Audio (USA)(file)

Adjective edit

puta

  1. feminine singular of puto

Adjective edit

puta (feminine-only, feminine plural putas)

  1. (vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) promiscuous

Adjective edit

puta m or f (plural putas)

  1. (Portugal and in some cities in Brazil, vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, frigging or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way if the person is jealous
    Synonyms: baita, gaita
    Não pude ir lá porque estava uma puta de tempestade. ― I could not go there, because there was a huge fucking storm.
    Você tem uma puta de sorte. ― You're so frigging lucky.

Noun edit

puta f (plural putas)

  1. (vulgar, derogatory) prostitute, whore, hooker
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
  2. (vulgar, derogatory) slut (promiscuous woman)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia

References edit

  1. ^ Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic edit

Noun edit

puta m sg

  1. genitive singular of put

Mutation edit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
puta phuta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Genitive singular form of pȗt (“road, path, way”), but used in plural constructions as an alternative form of the adverb pȗt (“time”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pǔːtaː/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Adverb edit

pútā (Cyrillic spelling пу́та̄)

  1. times (in combination with cardinals greater than or equal to two, and other words indicating quantity, specifying how many times has the action been repeated)
    dva puta ― twice
    pet puta ― five times
    nekoliko puta ― several times
    mnogo puta ― many times
    idućeg puta ― next time
    ovog puta ― this time
    svakog puta ― every time
  2. times (indicating multiplication)
    dva puta dva ― two times two
Related terms edit
  • (adverbial sense): pȗt

Etymology 2 edit

From Old High German puttina.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pûta/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun edit

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)

  1. (regional) wooden dish or plate (usually made by a cooper)
Declension edit
Declension of puta
singular plural
nominative puta pute
genitive pute puta
dative puti putama
accusative putu pute
vocative puto pute
locative puti putama
instrumental putom putama

Noun edit

puta (Cyrillic spelling пута)

  1. inflection of puto:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Spanish puta, from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -uta
  • Syllabification: pu‧ta
  • Audio (Colombia)(file)

Noun edit

puta f (plural putas)

  1. (derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
    Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera
  2. (derogatory, vulgar) bitch
    Synonym: zorra

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Adjective edit

puta

  1. feminine singular of puto

Descendants edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

Further reading edit

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

puta (present putar, preterite putade, supine putat, imperative puta)

  1. to pout (one's lips)
    puta med läpparna
    pout one's lips

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of puta (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive puta —
Supine putat —
Imperative puta —
Imper. plural1 puten —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative putar putade — —
Ind. plural1 puta putade — —
Subjunctive2 pute putade — —
Participles
Present participle putande
Past participle putad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Tagalog edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈputa/, [ˈpu.tɐ]
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun edit

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

  1. prostitute
    Synonyms: pokpok, hostes, GRO, patutot, kalapati, kalapating mababa ang lipad, ibong mababa ang lipad, kaladkarin, (Batangas, Mindoro) pagerper, belyas, pampam, balihanda, nagbebenta ng laman, balihantot
  2. (derogatory, vulgar) term of abuse: bitch

Usage notes edit

  • The Commission on the Filipino Language treats this as the neutral word for a prostitute, but the English term is often used in its place due to its roots as a Spanish vulgarity.

Derived terms edit

See also edit

Interjection edit

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

  1. (vulgar, derogatory, colloquial) said in dismay or discontent.

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • “puta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams edit

Turkish edit

Noun edit

puta

  1. dative singular of put
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