Noun: puttana
Gender: f
Hyphenation: put‧tà‧na
| Singular m | puttano |
| Singular f | puttana |
| Plural f | puttane |
Sample Sentences
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Taïde è, la puttana che rispuose ¶ al drudo suo quando disse ‘Ho io grazie ¶ grandi apo te?’: ‘Anzi maravigliose!’. (Thais the harlot is it, who replied ¶ unto her paramour, when he said, 'Have I ¶ great gratitude from thee?'--'Nay, marvellous') [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVIII, page 275, lines 133–135:]
Nouns inflected like puttana
nipotina,
ragazzina,
trisavola,
trisnonna,
vegliarda,
bambina,
cuginetta,
lavandaia,
gattara,
gattina,
bisnonna,
santola,
bisavola,
scolara,
piccina,
primogenita,
cagnetta,
marchettara,
figlioletta,
ruffiana, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French putain, from Latin puta (“girl”). See: Latin Nouns '
puta'.
Verbs referencing "puttana"
French Nouns
putain, Greek Nouns
πουτάνα, Russian Nouns
путана, Old Spanish Nouns
putaña.
Translations