puter

See also: Puter, putër, and 'puter

English

A white kitten is climbing out of an 2000s-era desktop computer tower and looking around.
A kitten stuck inside of a puter (sense 1)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

puter (plural puters)

  2. (childish, Internet slang, often endearing) Clipping of computer
    Synonym: comp
    I love my puter. All my friends are inside it.
    • 2026 July 1, @snapcube.gay, Bluesky‎[1] (post), archived from the original on 1 July 2026:
      it might be time to take my puter to the puter doctor. like, within the week probably.

Anagrams

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese putĕr.

Verb

puter

  1. to turn

Latin

Etymology

    From a stem *pŭtri-, commonly considered a close cognate to Old Irish othar m (“sickness”) (from a stem pŭtro-), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“rotten, foul”)[1] (also the source of Latin pūs (“pus, foul matter”) and pūteō (“to be rotten”) and English foul; see links for additional cognates).

    It is uncertain why *pŭtri- and *pŭtro- have short *ŭ, since the rules for the evolution of preconsonantal Proto-Indo-European *-uH- in Italic and Celtic are disputed. Proposed explanations include:

    • shortening of long vowels in a pretonic syllable (*puH-trí- > *pūtrí- > putri-)[2] (sometimes called "Dybo's Law"). As there are a number of apparent counterexamples to this sound change, it is often proposed that it was only regular in certain conditions, but there is no agreement on what those conditions were.
    • simplification of a laryngeal before a two-consonant *-TC- sequence,[2] or more specifically, before a stop + resonant + vowel (sometimes called the "Weather Rule", "Wetter-Regel" or "WR")
    • a variant root form *pHu-.[2] (However, Zair 2012 argues that the sequences *CHiC-/*CHuC- probably underwent metathesis to *CiHC-/*CuHC- in Proto-Indo-European.[1])

    Like all other Latin three-termination third-declension adjectives, the nominative forms were affected by a combination of sound changes and analogy. The masculine nominative singular puter (rare; found in Varro and Ovid) would be the regular phonetic outcome of an earlier form *putr̥s (with syllabic *r̥), from syncope of original putris. (Compare ter from Proto-Indo-European *trís.) It is also declined as a two-termination adjective with the alternative masculine nominative singular putris (e.g. "lapis ipse gracilis et putris", Pliny Epistulae 10.39).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    puter or putris (feminine putris, neuter putre); third-declension three-termination adjective

    1. rotten, decaying
      cadāver putre ― a rotten corpse
    2. crumbling, friable

    Declension

    Third-declension three-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative puter
    putris     		putris putre putrēs putria
    genitive putris putrium
    dative putrī putribus
    accusative putrem putre putrīs
    putrēs     		putria
    ablative putrī putribus
    vocative puter
    putris     		putris putre putrēs putria

    Synonyms

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Asturian: podre
    • English: putrid
    • Galician: podre
    • Italian: putre
    • Kabuverdianu: podri
    • Papiamentu: putrí
    • Portuguese: podre
    • Spanish: podre
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *pudr

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zair, Nicholas (2012), The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic, pages 112, 131-132, 155
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991), The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 339

    Further reading

    • “puter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “puter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Noun

    puter m or f

    1. indefinite plural of pute

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Noun

    puter f

    1. indefinite plural of pute

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

      Borrowed from German Butter (pronounced with initial unaspirated [p] in an Austro-Bavarian accent), from Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).

      Noun

      pȕter m inan (Cyrillic spelling пу̏тер)

      1. butter

      Declension

      Declension of puter
      singular plural
      nominative puter putri, puteri
      genitive putra, putera putara
      dative putru, puteru putrima, puterima
      accusative puter putre, putere
      vocative putre, putere putri, puteri
      locative putru, puteru putrima, puterima
      instrumental putrom, puterom putrima, puterima
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