Noun: putaña
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Dicit al fijo de la mala putaña que venga ante mí (Tell the son of a bitch to come to me!) [betw. 1246-1252, Gonzalo de Berceo, Los Milagros de nuestra Señora (ed. by Claudio García Turza, 1992, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe)]
Nouns inflected like putaña
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Uncertain. Likely a cognate of Italian puttana, and derived from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, perhaps derived from *puta, feminine of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), but see that entry for issues with the existence of the term in Latin. For the suffix of this word, also compare the -ain ending of Old French putain (“whore”), nonain (“nun”), Mariain (“Mary”), Evain (“Eve”). See: Italian Nouns '
puttana'.
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