putidus

== Latin == === Etymology === From pūteō (“to stink”, “to be rotten or putrid”) +‎ -idus (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.tɪ.dʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.ti.dus] === Adjective === pūtidus (feminine pūtida, neuter pūtidum, comparative pūtidior, superlative pūtidissimus, adverb pūtidē); first/second-declension adjective (literally) rotten, decaying, spoiled, fetid (of a wound) festering, infected, purulent, suppurating (without the attendant notion of decay or infection) stinking, reeking, foul, mephitic (transferred senses) (derogatory, of persons) old, half-rotten, withered, decrepit (of persons’ minds) addled, worn-out (of actions, utterances, etc.) tiresome, wearisome, objectionable, vexatious, offensive, disagreeable, disgusting (of language) unnatural, affected, stilted, pedantic ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== pūtidē pūtidiusculus pūtidulus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: púdol, puda, → pútid (learned) Italian: putido Old Spanish: pudio === References === “pūtĭdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “putidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “pūtĭdus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,281/3. “pūtidus” on page 1,526/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)