putrefy
Meaningto make rotten
Common meaning: to rot
- putrrottenLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1495 · scan
- efyverb ending: to make
Journey through time
- Latinputer (putris)‘rotten’
- Frenchputrefier
- Englishputrefy‘to rot’ · today
putr also in: putrid
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin puter (putris) ‘rotten’.
Roots
- puter (putris) Latin “rotten”
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