puterent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →puteo, putere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stink, be rotten/putrid; smell bad; rot/decompose (in such a way as to stink);
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...cenandi nulla uoluptas, nil rhombus, nil damma sapit, putere uidentur unguenta atque rosae, latos nisi sustinet orbis grande..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Vestinus cum ei nuntiatum esset ... "aliquando desinet putere". LXV. Onerabo librum exemplis, similemque iis qui risus gratia componuntur..."