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Ἔοικα γοῦν τούτου γε σμικρῷ τινι αὐτῷ τούτῳ σοφώτερος εἶναι, ὅτι ἃ μὴ οἶδα οὐδὲ οἴομαι εἰδέναι → I seem, then, in just this little thing to be wiser than this man at any rate, that what I do not know I do not think I know either

Plato, Apology 21d

Latin > English

puter putris, putre ADJ :: rotten, decaying; stinking, putrid, crumbling

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pŭter: and pū̆tris, tris, tre,
I adjj. puteo, rotten, decaying, putrefying, stinking, putrid.
I Lit.: palus puter, fetid, Varr. R. R. 1, 8: navis, Prop. 2, 19, 43 (3, 20, 7): fanum, mouldering from age, ruined, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 49: poma, rotten, Ov. M. 7, 585: fervent examina putri De bove, rotten, putrefying, id. F. 1, 379: viscera, id. M. 15, 365: corpora cicatricibus putria, Curt. 9, 3, 10; cf.: si ulcus magis putre est, Cels. 5, 26, 33: vomicae, Juv. 13, 95: putres artus et tabida cruore manantia membra, Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 5: artus, Sil. 13, 464: cadavera, putri liquentia tabo, id. 13, 487: moles, id. 3, 643. —
II Transf., in gen., loose, crumbling, friable, mellow, soft, flabby, etc.: glaeba, crumbling, Verg. G. 1, 44: tellus, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 39: campus, Verg. A. 8, 596: harena, Stat. S. 4, 3, 126; Luc. 8, 830: ager pinguis ac putris, Col. 2, 1: solum, id. 2, 10, 18; Verg. G. 2, 204: lapis, friable, Plin. Ep. 10, 39 (48), 2: mammae, flabby, Hor. Epod. 8, 7: oculi, languishing, id. C. 1, 36, 17; cf.: ille in Venerem est putris, Pers. 5, 58: anima, i. q. senilis, withered, old, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 67.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

pŭtĕr ou pŭtris, putris, e (pus),
1 pourri, gâté, corrompu, fétide : Varro R. 1, 8, 4 ; Ov. M. 7, 585 ; 15, 365 || délabré, en ruines : Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 49
2 désagrégé : glæba putris Virg. G. 1, 44, terre désagrégée ; putre solum Virg. G. 2, 204, sol friable || [fig.] flasque : Hor. Epo. 8, 7 ; putres oculi Hor. O. 1, 36, 17, yeux mourants, langoureux ; in Venerem putris Pers. 5, 58, s’abandonnant aux plaisirs dissolvants de Vénus.

Latin > German (Georges)

puter, putris, putre, u. putris, e, I) in Verwesung-, in Fäulnis übergegangen, angegangen, verwest, faul, morsch, ranzig, brandig, navis putris iam admodum et vetustate dilabens, Liv.: fanum, Hor.: navigium, Sen. rhet.: aedificium, Sen.: saxa, Sen.: poma, Ov.: ulcus, Cels.: os, Firm. math.: vomica, Iuven.: palus, Varro. – II) übtr., übh. locker, morsch, mürbe, welk, solum, Verg.: terra, Colum.: loca, Plin.: glaeba, Verg.: ager, Colum.: tellus, in Staub aufgelöst, Prop.: arena, Colum.: lapis, Plin. ep.: mammae, schlaffe, welke, Hor.: oculi, schwimmende, gläserne, Hor.: corpora cicatricibus, Curt.: so auch ille in Venerem putris, Pers.: anima, hinwelkend, alt, Prop.

Translations

rotten

Afrikaans: gevrot; Albanian: kalbur, prishur; Amharic: የገማ; Arabic: فَاسِد; Armenian: փտած; Aromanian: putrid; Azerbaijani: çürük, çürümüş; Bashkir: серек; Basque: ustel; Belarusian: гнілы; Bikol Central: lapa; Bulgarian: гнил; Burmese: ပုပ်; Carpathian Rusyn: гнилый; Catalan: podrit; Chinese Mandarin: 腐爛, 腐烂, 腐朽; Cimbrian: damaal; Cornish: breyn, podrek, poder; Crimean Tatar: çürük; Czech: shnilý; Dalmatian: muas; Danish: rådden; Dutch: rot, verrot; Erzya: наксадо; Esperanto: putra; Faroese: rotin; Finnish: mätä, mädäntynyt, laho; French: pourri; Friulian: frait, fraid; Galician: podre; German: faul, faulig, verfault, morsch, vergammelt, verdorben, gammelig, verrottet, kariös, schlecht; Greek: σάπιος, σαθρός; Ancient Greek: ἐπίσαπρος, σαθρός, σαπρός; Hindi: सड़ा; Hungarian: rohadt; Hunsrik: faul; Ido: putrinta; Indonesian: busuk; Ingrian: laho, lahokas, mätä; Irish: lofa; Italian: marcito, marcio; Japanese: 腐った, 腐朽した; Kabuverdianu: podri; Kazakh: шірік; Khmer: ស្អុយ, រលួយ, រអៀច; Komi-Zyrian: сісь; Korean: 썩다; Latin: puter, putris, cariosus; Latvian: sapuvis; Low German German Low German: fuul, verfuult; Macedonian: гнил, трул; Malayalam: ചീഞ്ഞ, അളിഞ്ഞ; Mansaka: baog, gabok; Maori: piro, manumanuā, manumanu, pipirau, pirapirau, hakuhaku; Marathi: सडलेले, सडलेला, सडलेली; Mari Eastern Mari: шӱйшӧ; Western Mari: шӱшӹ; Moksha: наксада; Navajo: dláád; Occitan: poirit; Ottoman Turkish: چوروك; Papiamentu: putri; Persian: پوسیده; Plautdietsch: morsch, frosich, ful; Polish: zgniły, zepsuty; Portuguese: podre; Quechua: ismu; Rapa Nui: piro; Romanian: putred, putregăios; Russian: гнилой, тухлый; Sardinian: prudicu, fracicu; Scottish Gaelic: grod, lobhte; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: гњио, труо; Roman: gnjȉo, trȕo; Slovak: hnilý, zhnitý; Slovene: gnil; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: zgnity; Spanish: podrido, estropeado, carcomido, dañado; Sundanese: buruk; Swedish: rutten; Tajik: пӯсида; Telugu: చెడిపోయిన; Tetum: dodok; Thai: เน่า; Turkish: çürük, bozuk; Udmurt: сись; Ukrainian: гнилий; Vietnamese: mục, rữa; Warlpiri: puka; Welsh: pwdr, madreddog, braen; Yiddish: פֿאַרפֿוילט; Zealandic: vrot, rot