putrid

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French putride or directly from Latin putridus (“rotten, decayed”), from putreō (“I am rotten or putrid”), from puter (“rotten, decaying, putrid”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.tɹɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.tɹəd/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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Adjective

putrid (comparative more putrid, superlative most putrid)

1. Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction. [from 14th c.]

   putrid flesh; putrid matter; putrid meat

   • 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:

     Quake guzzell dogs, that live on putrid slime.

   • 2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:

     […] vast quantities of putrid whale flesh were blasted into the sky

2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.

   Synonym: malodorous

   putrid smell; putrid odor

3. Vile, disgusting.
4. Morally corrupt.
5. Totally objectionable.

Derived terms

• putrid fever
• putrid sore throat

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *puH- (0 c, 17 e)

Translations

rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction

• Bulgarian: гнил (bg) (gnil), разложен (bg) (razložen)
• Catalan: pútrid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腐爛的／腐烂的 (zh) (fǔlàn de), 腐敗的／腐败的 (zh) (fǔbài de)

• Czech: shnilý (cs), hnijící, zkažený (cs)
• Dutch: verderfelijk (nl), rottend (nl)
• Finnish: mätä (fi)
• French: putride (fr)
• German: verfault (de), verdorben (de), übelriechend, faulig (de), aasig (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls)
• Greek: σάπιος (el) (sápios)

  Ancient: σαπρός (saprós)

• Hungarian: rothadt (hu), rothadó (hu)
• Ido: putranta (io), putrinta (io)
• Japanese: 腐敗した (ja) (ふはいした, fuhai shita)
• Latin: puter m
• Macedonian: гнил (gnil), ра́спаднат (ráspadnat)
• Maori: ero, piro, kerakera, pīhonga, pirau, kōhangohango
• Plautdietsch: ful
• Polish: zgniły (pl)
• Portuguese: pútrido (pt)
• Romanian: putred (ro)
• Russian: гнию́щий (ru) (gnijúščij) (rotting), гнило́й (ru) (gnilój) (rotten)
• Spanish: putrefacto (es)
• Yiddish: פֿױל (foyl)

See also

• rotten
• foul
• odor

References

• “pū̆trid, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Anagrams

• turpid

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• putridu, prutid, prudit

Etymology

From Latin putridus. Compare Romanian putred.

Adjective

putrid m (feminine singular putridã, masculine plural putridz, feminine plural putridi or putride)

1. rotten, putrid, decayed, spoiled

Derived terms

• putridzãscu
• putridzãnji

See also

• ciuruc

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French putride, from Latin putridus. Doublet of the inherited putred.

Adjective

putrid m or n (feminine singular putridă, masculine plural putrizi, feminine and neuter plural putride)

1. (literary, uncommon) putrid

   Synonym: putred

Declension

Declension of putrid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	putrid		putridă	putrizi	putride
	definite	putridul		putrida	putrizii	putridele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	putrid		putride	putrizi	putride
	definite	putridului		putridei	putrizilor	putridelor