uter

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === For *cuter, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóteros, from *kʷos (“which”), ultimately from *kʷ-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πότερος (póteros, “which of the two”) and English whether. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊ.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈuː.ter] ==== Pronoun ==== uter (feminine utra, neuter utrum); first/second-declension pronoun (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal declension) (interrogative) which, who (of two)? (relative, in indirect questions) whichever, whoever (of two) (indefinite) either (of two), one or the other ===== Usage notes ===== Variously construed: With a genitival partitive: Quam ob rem uter nostrum tandem, Labiene, popularis est, […] (Cicero, Pro Rabirio perduellonis reo 4.11) With partitive ex or (rare) de: Quomodo, oro te, convenit ut et Diogenen mireris et Daedalum? Uter ex his sapiens tibi videtur? (Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 90.14) Number agreement: With the verb in the singular: Valerius Horatiusque consules sortiti uter dedicaret [aedem]. (Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 2.27.5) In the second person, with the verb in the plural (Plautine): Uter eratis, tun an ille, maior?, "Who of the two was the older one, you or he?" (Plautus, Menaechmi 5.9.60) Used in the plural to define two sets comprised of more than one entity: […] ; sed, utros eius [Suculi] habueris libros—duo enim sunt corpora—an utrosque, nescio. (Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11.14) ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er, pronominal declension). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === For *udris, from Proto-Italic *udri-, from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”). Compare with Ancient Greek ὑδρία (hudría, “water-pot, pitcher”). Related to vitrum. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊ.tɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈuː.ter] ==== Noun ==== uter m (genitive utris); third declension a vessel made of hide used to store wine or water; a leather bottle, a skin Hypernym: vās Near-synonyms: ampulla, hirnea (especially) a bag made of hide inflated for flotation Hypernyms: linter, nāvis ===== Declension ===== Note: although the nominative and accusative plural was normally the masculine utrēs, the rare alternative neuter plural utria is also attested. Third-declension noun (i-stem). ===== Derived terms ===== utriculus ===== Descendants ===== Aromanian: utri Catalan: odre → French: outre Galician: odre Italian: otre Piedmontese: oiro Portuguese: odre Sicilian: utri Spanish: odre === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== uter m (genitive uterī); second declension alternative form of uterus (Can we add an example for this sense?) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er). === Further reading === “ŭter¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “uter¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ūter²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ūter²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ŭter³”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ŭtĕr”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. uter, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011 Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “uter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “uter”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 646-647 == Old High German == === Alternative forms === ūtar, ūtaro, ūtiro === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *eudr, from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewHdʰr̥-, *h₁ówHdʰr̥, *h₁uHdʰr̥- (“udder”). === Noun === ūter m udder ==== Descendants ==== Middle High German: ūter, iuter m or n Cimbrian: autar n German: Euter n Luxembourgish: Auder m === References === Köbler, Gerhard (2014), “u”, in Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎[2] (in German), 6th edition == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin uterus, French utérus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈu.ter] === Noun === uter n (plural utere) (anatomy) uterus ==== Declension ====