puto

From Tagalog (and other Philippine languages) puto, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːtoʊ/

puto (plural putos or puto)

1. (Philippines) A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.

• pout, tupo, up to

Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).

• Hyphenation: pu‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈputo/, [ˈpu.to]

púto

1. rice cake

From Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).

• Hyphenation: pu‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈputo/, [ˈpu.t̪ɔ]

púto

1. a rice cake cooked by boiling or steaming rice
2. a similar dish that uses egg whites and flour

From Latin puteus. Not related to putino.

• IPA^(key): [ˈputo]
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• Rhymes: -uto
• Hyphenation: pu‧to

puto (accusative singular puton, plural putoj, accusative plural putojn)

1. A well; a hole sunk into the ground for obtaining water.

   Tiu ĉi puto estas proksimume 50 metrojn profunda. ― This well is about 50 meters deep.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.toː/, [ˈpʊt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.to/, [ˈpuːt̪o]

Either from putus +‎ -ō, or else from Proto-Indo-European *paw- (“to strike”), which would make it cognate with puteus. For sense development, compare dēcīdō.

putō (present infinitive putāre, perfect active putāvī, supine putātum); first conjugation

1. (very rare) to clean, cleanse
2. to trim, prune, lop
3. (figurative) to arrange, settle
4. (figurative) to value, esteem, deem, regard, consider
   • 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1.77:

     Homō sum, hūmānī nihil ā mē aliēnum putō.

     I am a human, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.

   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 12.4:

     Hoc salsum esse putās?

     Do you think that's funny?

5. (figurative) to judge, suspect, suppose
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Life of Vespasian 23 4:

     Prima quoque morbi accessione, Vae, inquit, puto, deus fio.

     As death drew near, [Vespasian] said, Dear me, I suspect I'm becoming a god.

6. (figurative) to ponder, consider, think about

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• (clean): abstergeō, pūrgō, luō, tergeō, effingō
• (lop): amputō, discindō, intercidō, incīdō, discerpō
• (think): cōgitō, sentio, arbitror, existimo, opinor, credo
• (consider): considero, perpendō, reputo, arbitror, existimo, iudico, censeo, cogito, reor
• (ponder): reflectō, ponderō, pendō, cōnsīderō, dēlīberō, reputō, cōnsulō, replicō, dubitō, cōnsultō, circumspiciō, videō, trahō, versō

• (antonym(s) of “clean”): contingō, scelerō, maculō, inquinō, polluō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

putō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of putus

• “puto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the result has surprised me; I was not prepared for this development: res aliter cecidit ac putaveram
    
  • I think that..: in hac sum sententia, ut...putem
    
  • to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): verbum ductum esse a...putare
    
  • to balance accounts with some one: rationes putare cum aliquo
    

Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).

• Hyphenation: pu‧to
• IPA^(key): /ˈputo/, [ˈpʊ.to]

puto

1. white rice cake

From Old Galician-Portuguese puto, from Latin pūtus (“boy”). Cognate with Italian putto (“child”).

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• Rhymes: -utu
• Hyphenation: pu‧to

puto (feminine puta, masculine plural putos, feminine plural putas, comparable, comparative mais puto, superlative o mais puto or putíssimo, diminutive putinho, augmentative putão or putaço)

1. (informal, colloquial) furious, angry, annoyed, irritated

   Eu estou puto com ela.

   I'm very angry with her.

   Minha mãe ficou puta com a situação.

   My mom became angry with the situation.

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puto m (plural putos)

1. (Portugal, colloquial) small kid

   Synonym: chavalo

   Estava lá um puto a fazer o que não devia.

   There was a kid doing things he shouldn't.

2. (Portugal, colloquial) son

   Synonym: filho

   O meu puto está sempre a fazer asneiras.

   My son is always misbehaving.

3. (Brazil, vulgar) a jerk; an unlikable, obnoxious person

   Synonym: quengo

   Aquele cara ali é um puto.

   That dude over there isn't worth anything.

4. (vulgar, Brazil) a libertine man
5. (vulgar, Brazil) a male prostitute; a manwhore
6. (vulgar, Rio Grande do Sul) a fag; a gay, homosexual
7. (vulgar, Brazil) a small quantity of money

   Eu estou sem nenhum puto.

   I don’t have any money.

puto

1. (Portugal, colloquial) (indefinite) nothing (not any thing; no thing)

   Synonyms: nada, (colloquial) nicles

   Não entendi puto.

   I didn't understand anything.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫto.

• IPA^(key): /pûto/
• Hyphenation: pu‧to

pȕto n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏то)

1. pastern

   Synonym: pùtilo

puto (Cyrillic spelling путо)

1. vocative singular of puta

• “puto” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫ̀to.

• IPA^(key): [ˈputɔ]

puto n

1. bond (emotional)

• “puto”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

From puta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputo/ [ˈpu.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -uto
• Syllabification: pu‧to

puto (feminine puta, masculine plural putos, feminine plural putas)

1. (vulgar) fucking, goddamn
   • 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter I, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 11:

     Me jode ir al Kronen los sábados por la tarde porque está siempre hasta el culo de gente. No hay ni una puta mesa libre y hace un calor insoportable.

     Going to Kronen on Saturdays pisses me off because it's always chock full of people. There isn't a single fucking free table and it's unbearably hot.

   • 2022 May 17, Álvaro Sánchez, “Los sueños rotos de luna, la criptomoneda que colapsó en tres días: “Parecía una apuesta segura””, in El País‎, retrieved 2022-05-18:

     “Kwon es un puto visionario, el Elon Musk del futuro”, decía la semana pasada, justo antes de su derrumbe [...]

     "Kwon is a fucking visionary, the Elon Musk of the future", [he] said last week, just before it crumbled [...]

puto m (plural putos, feminine puta, feminine plural putas)

1. (vulgar) man-whore

   Synonym: prostituto

2. (vulgar, derogatory) faggot

   Synonym: maricón

3. (vulgar, derogatory) asshole, fucker, motherfucker

   Synonyms: culero, pendejo

• “puto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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puto (ma class, plural maputo)

1. balloon

   Synonyms: kibofu, baluni

Borrowed from Malay putu, from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”). Compare Indonesian putu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈputo/, [ˈpu.to]
• Hyphenation: pu‧to

puto (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆᜓ)

1. puto (steamed rice cake)

• “puto”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Possibly from Tamil புட்டு (puṭṭu, “a Tamil dish”).

puto

1. white rice cake

putó

1. youngest child; last born child