puta

See also: puța, puță, püta, púta, pútà, пута, and pụta

Etymology

From Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Noun

puta (uncountable)

(vulgar, chiefly US Hispanic) A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
- 1988 February 12, Lawrence Bommer, “Extremeties/Talking With . . .”, in Chicago Reader‎:
  Mastrosimone's (antiheroine?) Marjorie lets in a man who quickly drops the small talk, slams her to the floor, and almost smothers her with a pillow as he commands her to say "thank you," "I love you," and "I am your puta."
- 2005, Eric Bogosian, Wasted Beauty, page 63:
  And we told you, man, we have not seen your puta sister.

Anagrams

APTU, Tupa, UATP, patu, tapu

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Catalan puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

whore (prostitute)

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. Cognate with French pute, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.tə]

IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpu.ta]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)

Noun

puta f (plural putes)

(derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut
mischievous

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

puta

(vulgar) prostitute
(derogatory, vulgar) slut; bitch

Synonyms

(slut): bigaon, igat

Etymology

From Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa/, [ˈpu.t̪a]
Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

puta

(vulgar) prostitute
(vulgar) bitch (obnoxious person)

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Spanish puta. It appeared first in rap texts. Doublet of pute.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pu.ta/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) bitch
- 2019, Ninho (lyrics and music), “Maman ne le sait pas”, performed by Ninho:
  Dans la ville j’revends le cannabis, maman ne le sait pas
  J’recompte mes potes, tout près des haramistes, le canon d’vant la glace
  Les pneus qui crissent, on est revenus tirer sur ces fils de puta
  Et j’sais qu’Iblis veut pas m’voir m’en tirer, faut qu’j’m’éloigne de tout ça
  In the city I'm selling cannabis, mama don't know it
  I'm counting my buddies, close to the sinners, the gun in front of the mirror
  The tyres squealing, we're back to shoot those sons of bitches
  And I know Iblis don't want me to get away with it, I gotta get away from it all
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) whore
(slang, derogatory, vulgar) slut

Synonyms

pute

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese puta, probably from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, variant of *puta, female form of *puttus, putus (“boy”), which is however a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Portuguese puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa̝/

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(vulgar, derogatory) whore
Synonym: prostituta
(vulgar, derogatory) slut
- 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios, doc. 164;
  Iten Costança de Riba davia diso porlo dito juramento que feito avya que lle oyra diser que disera a dita Costança Vasques que era huna puta que posera as cornas ao marido
  Item, Constanza de Ribadavia said, by that oath that she had done, that she heard that said Constanza Vázquez was a slut that had put horns on her husband
(vulgar, derogatory) bitch

Derived terms

fillo de puta

Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)

(vulgar) evil; inmoral
(vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking, freaking or damn may be used in the USA. May mean "huge", "impressive" and/or "problematic" and can even be used in a good way, if the person is jealous
Non puiden ir alá por causa dunha puta tormenta. ― I could not go there, because of a fucking storm.

Tes unha puta sorte! ― You're so freaking lucky! / You're so freaking unlucky!

References

[1]
Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “puta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “puta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “puta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “puta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “puta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “puta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology

From Spanish puta, and Portuguese puta, French pute, putain and Italian puttana.

Noun

puta (plural putas)

(vulgar) whore

Synonyms

prostituta (“prostitute”)

Etymology

From Portuguese puta.

Noun

puta

(slang) whore, slut, prostitute
(slang) bitch

Etymology 1

Imperative of putō (“think, consider, prune, trim”).

Alternative forms

putà (early modern)

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

Verb

putā

second-person singular present active imperative of putō (“think!”)

Etymology 2

Lexicalisation of the above imperative that underwent iambic shortening.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]
Note: the final vowel is lexicalised as short in this use.

Adverb

puta (not comparable)

suppose, for instance, namely
Synonyms: ut puta, ecce puta, ecce, exemplī grātiā

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

puta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpʊt̪ä]

puta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]
putā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.taː/, [ˈpʊt̪äː]

putā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.ta/, [ˈpuːt̪ä]

Adjective

puta

inflection of putus:
1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

putā

ablative feminine singular of putus

Noun

puta f

foam

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from East Central German or German Pute.

Noun

puta f

(female) turkey (bird)
turkey (meat)

Declension

More information Singular, Dual ...

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	puta	puśe	puty
Genitive	puty	putowu	putow
Dative	puśe	putoma	putam
Accusative	putu	puśe	puty
Instrumental	putu	putoma	putami
Locative	puśe	putoma	putach

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Declension of puta

Synonyms

truta
turkawa

Etymology 2

Verb

puta

(dialectal) Alternative form of pyta

References

Starosta, Manfred (1999) “puta”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puta. Compare Hawaiian puka.

Noun

puta

hole
anus

Verb

puta

to pass through and out
to graduate
to run off; to escape
to be born

Derived terms

puta noa (“across”)

Alternative forms

puten

Noun

puta f sg

definite feminine singular of pute

Noun

puta f sg

definite singular of pute

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading.

Noun

puta f

whore
Synonym: putaña
- by 1325, Anonymous, Crónica de veinte Reyes , (ed. by Terrence A. Mannetter, 1995, Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies):
  llamar vos han fijo de puta, mas non fijo de traydor
  They shall call you son of a bitch, but not son of a traitor.

Descendants

Spanish: puta

Etymology

From Spanish puta and Portuguese puta and Kabuverdianu puta.

Noun

puta

(vulgar, slang) whore, slut, prostitute
(vulgar, slang) bitch

Alternative forms

p*ta (censored)

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Spanish puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpu.tɐ/

Audio (Portugal, Oporto): (file)
Audio (Portugal): (file)

Adjective

puta

feminine singular of puto

Adjective

puta (feminine-only, feminine plural putas)

(vulgar, derogatory, of a girl or woman) slutty
Synonym: (Portugal) badalhoca

Adjective

puta m or f (plural putas)

(Portugal and in some cities in Brazil, vulgar) an intensifier used in a similar way as fucking
Synonyms: baita, merda

Não pude ir lá porque estava uma puta de tempestade. ― I could not go there, because there was a huge fucking storm.

Você tem uma puta de sorte. ― You're so fucking lucky.

Usage notes

Unlike merda, which can qualify both masculine and feminine words, puta can only be used with feminine words, e.g. one can say both a merda do sol (the fucking sun) and a merda da lua (the fucking moon), but only a puta da lua and not *a puta do sol.

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(vulgar, derogatory) whore, hooker
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
(vulgar, derogatory) slut (promiscuous woman)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia
(vulgar, derogatory) bitch (a term of contempt towards women)

Descendants

→ Saramaccan: púta

References

[1]
Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

Noun

puta m sg

genitive singular of put

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...

Mutation of *puta*
radical	lenition
puta	phuta

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Etymology 1

Genitive singular form of pȗt (“road, path, way”), but used in plural constructions as an alternative form of the adverb pȗt (“time”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pǔːtaː/
Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Adverb

pútā (Cyrillic spelling пу́та̄)

times (in combination with cardinals greater than or equal to two, and other words indicating quantity, specifying how many times has the action been repeated)
dva puta ― twice

pet puta ― five times

nekoliko puta ― several times

mnogo puta ― many times

idućeg puta ― next time

ovog puta ― this time

svakog puta ― every time
times (indicating multiplication)
dva puta dva ― two times two

Related terms

(adverbial sense): pȗt

Etymology 2

From Old High German puttina.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pûta/
Hyphenation: pu‧ta

Noun

pȕta f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏та)

(regional) wooden dish or plate (usually made by a cooper)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	puta	pute
genitive	pute	puta
dative	puti	putama
accusative	putu	pute
vocative	puto	pute
locative	puti	putama
instrumental	putom	putama

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Declension of puta

Noun

puta (Cyrillic spelling пута)

inflection of puto:
1. genitive singular
2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish puta, from a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from Latin *puta, female form of Latin putus (“teeny boy”), a hapax legomenon of dubious reading. This etymology is supported by both María Moliner and Joan Coromines.^[1] Cognate with French pute, Catalan puta, Portuguese puta, Galician puta, Asturian puta, as well as Old Italian putta (“girl”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpu.t̪a]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -uta
Syllabification: pu‧ta

Noun

puta f (plural putas)

(derogatory, vulgar) whore, slut, prostitute
Synonyms: golfa, maraca, prostituta, ramera
(derogatory, vulgar) bitch
Synonym: zorra

Derived terms

Related terms

putañear (verb)

Adjective

puta

feminine singular of puto

Descendants

→ Cebuano: puta
→ English: puta
→ Tagalog: puta

References

[1]
Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -²ʉːta

Verb

puta (present putar, preterite putade, supine putat, imperative puta)

to pout (one's lips)
puta med läpparna
pout one's lips

Conjugation

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	Active		Passive
Infinitive	puta		—
Supine	putat		—
Imperative	puta		—
Imper. plural¹	puten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	putar	putade	—	—
Ind. plural¹	puta	putade	—	—
Subjunctive²	pute	putade	—	—
	Participles
Present participle	putande
Past participle	putad
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Conjugation of puta (weak)

Alternative forms

depota, shuta, fucha, pucha, putsa, putik, putek, putris, putragis, putspa — minced oath
pota — colloquial

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish puta.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈputa/ [ˈpuː.t̪ɐ]
Rhymes: -uta
Syllabification: pu‧ta

Noun

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

prostitute
Synonyms: pokpok, hostes, GRO, patutot, kalapati, kalapating mababa ang lipad, ibong mababa ang lipad, kaladkarin, (Batangas, Mindoro) pagerper, belyas, pampam, prosti, prostituta, balihanda, nagbebenta ng laman, balihantot
(derogatory, vulgar) term of abuse: bitch

Usage notes

The Commission on the Filipino Language treats this as the neutral word for a prostitute, but the English term is often used in its place due to its roots as a Spanish vulgarity.

Derived terms

Interjection

puta (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜆ)

(vulgar, derogatory, colloquial) said in dismay or discontent.

Anagrams

tupa, upat, Tupa

Noun

puta

dative singular of put

[1] [1]
Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “puta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

[2] [1]
Coromines, Joan (2011) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN

[3] [1]
Joan Coromines, Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana, tercera edición 2011, →ISBN

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