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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *puH-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpuː.te.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpuː.te.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pūteō''' (present infinitive pūtēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

+ The OLD records a perfect ''pūtuī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is related to [[pūs]] “pus”.^(OLD 2012) According to de Vaan its probable source is a past participle, [[der|itc-pro|*pūto-|t=rotten]], of the root [[ine-pro|*puH-]],^(de Vaan 2008) and the TLL likewise holds that the old verb from that root was lost in Latin and replaced by a new one made from the participle.^(TLL)

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+ Cognate with [[sa|पूयति|tr=pū́yati|t=to rot, stink]], [[grc|πύθομαι|tr=púthomai|t=to rot, decay]] and [[lt|pū́ti|t=to rot, decay]],^(de Vaan 2008) and with [[en|foul]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan finds it from Plautus on.^(de Vaan 2008) In the ''Mostellaria'' damp timbers are said to stink, ''tigna ūmidē haec putent'',^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) though some editions read ''putrent'' there.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to rot so as to stink, and also simply to smell bad, without any idea of decay.^(OLD 2012) Horace uses it of a boar or turbot gone off, and of poets who reek of wine in the daytime (''mero putere diurno'').^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Quintilian quotes Marcus Vestinus, who on hearing that a man had been killed said ''aliquandō dēsinet putēre'', “at last he will stop stinking”,^(OLD 2012) and in Juvenal perfumes and roses seem to stink.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of damp, rotting timbers.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in a fragment quoted by Nonius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses it of spoiled food and of poets smelling of wine.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian quotes Vestinus' joke about a dead man.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal says that perfumes and roses seem to stink.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|rot]] or decompose, so as to stink.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To smell bad, [[m|en|stink]], without the idea of decay.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pūtēfaciō]]

+ * [[pūtēscō]]

+ * [[pūtidus]]

+ * [[pūtor]]

+ * [[nariputens]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pūs]]

+ * [[puter]]

+ * [[en|foul]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}