# puto
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpuːtoʊ/

### Noun

puto (plural putos or puto)
* (Philippines) A rice cake made of boiled or steamed rice.

### Anagrams

* pout, tupo, up to

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pu‧to
* IPA: /ˈputo/ [ˈpu.to]

### Noun

púto
* rice cake

#### See also

* bibingka
* ibos

## Catalan
### Etymology

From puta.

### Noun

puto m (plural putos)
* (vulgar) man-whore
* (vulgar, derogatory) fucker, faggot

### Interjection

puto
* (vulgar) fucking, goddamn, damn

## Cebuano
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pu‧to
* IPA: /ˈputo/ [ˈpu.t̪o]

### Noun

púto
* a rice cake cooked by boiling or steaming rice
* a similar dish that uses egg whites and flour

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin puteus. Not related to putino.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈputo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uto
* Hyphenation: pu‧to

### Noun

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

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpu.toː/, [ˈpʊt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpu.to/, [ˈpuːt̪o]

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Verb

putō (present infinitive putāre, perfect active putāvī, supine putātum); first conjugation
* (very rare) to clean, cleanse
* to trim, prune, lop
* (figurative) to arrange, settle
* (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?
** Publilius Syrus :Quamvis non rectum quod iuvat rectum putes.It may not be right but if it pays think it so.
* (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.
* (figurative) to ponder, consider, think about

##### Conjugation

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

##### Synonyms

* (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

##### Antonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* amputō
* apputō
* computō
* dēputō
* disputō
* exputō
* imputō
* opputō
* perputō
* postputō
* putāmen
* putātiō
* putātor
* reputō
* supputō

##### Descendants

* Dalmatian: potuor
* Franco-Provençal: pouar
* Italian: potare
* Old French:
** ⇒ Middle French: putatif
*** French: putatif
*** → English: putative
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: podar
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: podar
** Occitan: podar
* Old Galician-Portuguese:
** Galician: podar
** Portuguese: podar
* Old Spanish: podar
** Spanish: podar
* Sardinian: pudai, pudare
* Sicilian: putari

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

putō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of putus

### References

* “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

## Pangasinan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pu‧to
* IPA: /ˈputo/, [ˈpʊ.to]

### Noun

puto
* white rice cake

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.tu/
* Rhymes: -utu
* Hyphenation: pu‧to
* Audio (Brazil):(file)

### Adjective

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)
* (Brazil, informal, vulgar, 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.

#### Derived terms

* emputecer

### Noun

puto m (plural putos)
* (Portugal, informal) kid
    Synonym: chavalo
    Estava lá um puto a fazer o que não devia.There was a kid doing things he shouldn't.
** 2024 July 14, Rui Antunes, “Espanha tetracampeã: No pátio do Europeu, a bola é dos putos Nico e Lamine (e a taça também) [Four-time champion Spain: In the European courtyard, the ball belongs to the kids Nico and Lamine (and the cup too)]”, in Visão‎, retrieved 2024-07-16:
* (Portugal, colloquial) son
    Synonym: filho
    O meu puto está sempre a fazer asneiras.My son is always misbehaving.
* (Brazil, vulgar) a jerk; an unlikable, obnoxious person
    Synonym: quengo
    Aquele cara ali é um puto.That dude over there isn't worth anything.
* (vulgar, Brazil) a libertine man
* (vulgar, Brazil) a male prostitute; a manwhore
* (Portugal and in some cities in Brazil, vulgar, rare) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking
* (vulgar, Rio Grande do Sul) a fag; a gay, homosexual
* (vulgar, Brazil) a small quantity of money
    Eu estou sem nenhum puto.I don’t have any money.

### Pronoun

puto
* (Portugal, colloquial) (indefinite) nothing (not any thing; no thing)
    Synonyms: nada, (colloquial) nicles
    Não entendi puto.I didn't understand anything.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pûto/
* Hyphenation: pu‧to

### Noun

pȕto n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏то)
* pastern
    Synonym: pùtilo

#### Declension
### Noun

puto (Cyrillic spelling путо)
* vocative singular of puta

### References

* “puto”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫ̀to.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈputɔ]

### Noun

puto n
* bond (emotional)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From puta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈputo/ [ˈpu.t̪o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -uto
* Syllabification: pu‧to

### Adjective

puto (feminine puta, masculine plural putos, feminine plural putas, superlative putísimo)
* (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 [...]

#### Derived terms

* a la puta calle
* pasarlas putas

### Noun

puto m (plural putos, feminine puta, feminine plural putas)
* (vulgar) man-whore
    Synonym: prostituto
* (vulgar, derogatory) faggot
    Synonym: maricón
* (vulgar, derogatory) asshole, fucker, motherfucker
    Synonyms: culero, pendejo

### Further reading

* “puto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

puto class V (plural maputo class VI)
* balloon
    Synonyms: kibofu, baluni

## Tagalog
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈputo/ [ˈpuː.t̪o]
* Rhymes: -uto
* Syllabification: pu‧to

### Noun

puto (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆᜓ)
* puto (steamed rice cake)
* (colloquial) piece of cake (simple or easy job)
    Synonyms: sisiw, mani

#### Usage notes

* Usage in Tagalog/Filipino or in the Philippines in general is neither offensive nor vulgar, unlike when read in Spanish which it should not be mistaken with Spanish puto.

#### Derived terms

* puto biñan
* puto bumbong
* puto masa
* puto maya
* puto-seko
* puto-sulot
* putuhan

#### See also

* bibingka
* biskuwit
* galyetas
* kakanin
* kutsinta
* tinapay

### Further reading

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

## Waray-Waray
### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

puto
* white rice cake

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

putó
* youngest child; last born child