See putus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "In foedere quod inter populum Rōmānum et Carthāginiēnsēs factum est, scrīptum invenītur, ut Carthāginiēnsēs quotannīs populō Rōmānō darent certum pondus argentī pūrī putī, quaesītumque est, quid esset pūrum putum. respondī ego putum esse valdē pūrum.",
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}
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},
{
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"lang_code": "it",
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},
{
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},
{
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},
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "1st century BCE, P. Alfenus Varus, Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae 7.5.1",
"text": "In foedere quod inter populum Rōmānum et Carthāginiēnsēs factum est, scrīptum invenītur, ut Carthāginiēnsēs quotannīs populō Rōmānō darent certum pondus argentī pūrī putī, quaesītumque est, quid esset pūrum putum. respondī ego putum esse valdē pūrum.",
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}
],
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"Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "putillus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"word": "puto"
},
{
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"word": "putto"
},
{
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"word": "puto"
},
{
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"word": "puto"
},
{
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"word": "puto"
}
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "πόθος"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek πόθος (póthos)",
"name": "noncog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "itc-pro",
"3": "*putlos"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Italic *putlos",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "puer"
},
"expansion": "Latin puer",
"name": "m+"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Earlier conjecture/variant reading in Pseudo-Virgil's Catalepton, where more recent editions read Pothus (“Desire”), i.e. personified Ancient Greek πόθος (póthos). The word would match the base form of pusillus, putillus (see the former for details) as well as a number of Italic and Indo-European cognates. For this reason it has found a circulation in etymological works and is included as a headword by De Vaan, but the single attestation is spurious, making this a ghost word. See Proto-Italic *putlos and Latin puer, pūsus, pullus.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "putī",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "putus<2>"
},
"expansion": "putus m (genitive putī); second declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "pisinnus"
},
{
"word": "pitinnus"
},
{
"word": "pullus"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin hapax legomena",
"la:Children",
"la:Male people"
],
"glosses": [
"a boy"
],
"links": [
[
"boy",
"boy"
]
],
"qualifier": "conjecture",
"raw_glosses": [
"(hapax legomenon, conjecture) a boy"
],
"senseid": [
"la:boy"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "puellus"
},
{
"word": "puerulus"
},
{
"word": "pūsus"
},
{
"word": "pūsiō"
},
{
"word": "pusillus"
},
{
"word": "puer"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin slang",
"Latin vulgarities",
"Vulgar Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"whore, manwhore, prostitute, bitch"
],
"links": [
[
"whore",
"whore"
],
[
"manwhore",
"manwhore"
],
[
"prostitute",
"prostitute"
],
[
"bitch",
"bitch"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Vulgar Latin, slang, vulgar) whore, manwhore, prostitute, bitch"
],
"tags": [
"Latin",
"declension-2",
"masculine",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"word": "putus"
}
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"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: hapax legomenon, conjecture",
"path": [
"putus"
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"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "putus",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: hapax legomenon, conjecture",
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