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pută
whore /ˈpu.tə/
noun#4062 most common
Also: slut, prostitute, tart
Example sentences
Ea este o pută.
She is a whore.
Taci, puto!
Shut up, you whore!
Toți din cartier știu că e o pută.
Everyone in the neighborhood knows she's a whore.
M-a mințit ca o pută adevărată.
She lied to me like a real whore.
Nu te mai purta ca o pută doar pentru că ai câțiva bani.
Stop acting like a whore just because you have some money.
Presa a numit-o "pută" doar pentru că a refuzat să tacă, dovadă a dublului standard aplicat femeilor publice.
The press called her a "whore" simply because she refused to stay silent, proof of the double standard applied to women in public life.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pută | pute |
| Genitive | pute | putelor |
| Accusative | pută | pute |
| Vocative | puto | putelor |
Word family
curvăwhore (near-synonym, of Slavic origin)târfătart, whore (near-synonym)
javrămongrel; used loosely as an insult for a treacherous person
prostituatăprostitute (neutral, clinical register)Etymology
Pută is a vulgar Romanian word for a promiscuous or contemptible woman. It belongs to a small family of Romance words with the same shape and sense: French pute, Italian puttana, and Spanish and Portuguese puta. Linguists do not agree on the ultimate source. One theory traces it to a Vulgar Latin feminine form of putus, meaning a young, pure boy or girl, whose sense turned pejorative over time. Another theory links it instead to Latin putidus, meaning rotten or stinking. Because the two accounts compete and neither is settled, no single root can be stated with confidence.
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