puteres
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);
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- D
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..." - M
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..."