putreo

== Latin == === Etymology === From puter (“rotten, decaying”) +‎ -eō, from Proto-Indo-European *puH-; compare Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πύον (púon, “discharge from a sore”), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpʊ.tre.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.tre.o] === Verb === putreō (present infinitive putrēre, perfect active putruī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem (pre-classical) to be rotten, decaying, putrid (pre-classical) to be festering ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== putrēscō ==== Descendants ==== Vulgar Latin: *putrīre (see there for further descendants) === References === “putreo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “putreo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.