puteus – Latin noun declension

Noun: puteus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	puteus
Plural	puteī

Genitive

Singular	puteī
Plural	puteōrum

Dative

Singular	puteō
Plural	puteīs

Accusative

Singular	puteum
Plural	puteōs

Ablative

Singular	puteō
Plural	puteīs

Vocative

Singular	putee
Plural	puteī

Sample Sentences

Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
[…]
Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900
When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
[…] [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.327–330]

Nouns inflected like puteus

priāpismus, scāpus, servus, cuneolus, sargus, saccus, scarus, scinus, scopus, illēgitimus, sorbus, sophus, somnus, Hispānus, soccus, sirpus, siclus, icterus, cunīculus, xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Uncertain.
2. *De Vaan suggests it could be a loanword.
3. *Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *pēu-, *pyu-, *pū- (“to cut, strike, hit”). Comare paveō, paviō, pudeō, tripudium.

Verbs referencing "puteus"

English Nouns pit, Irish Nouns pit, Dutch Nouns put, Catalan Nouns pou, French Nouns puits, Italian Nouns pozzo, Galician Nouns pozo, Spanish Nouns pozo, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns pytt, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns pytt, Old Spanish Nouns poço, Portuguese Nouns poço, Romanian Nouns puț, Finnish Nouns potero, Galician Nouns poza, Spanish Nouns poza, Asturian Nouns pozu.