puer

Etymology

Perhaps from French puer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpju.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpjuː.ə/, /ˈpjʊə/

Noun

puer (uncountable)

1. (chiefly historical) Dung (of dogs, fowls, etc) used in tanning, after applying lime, to soften skins.
   • 1842, The Penny Magazine, May 212/1:

     A solution called the ‘pure’ or the 'pewer' (having never seen the word written.., we must spell it as pronounced) is prepared in a large vessel, and into this the skins are immersed.

   • 1903, Henry Richardson Proctor, The principles of leather manufacture, page 174:

     […] The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer.

   • 2009, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, page 166:

     […] it was about 50 years before the use of puer was discontinued, at least in Europe.

Anagrams

• Peru, Pre-U, Prue, Rupe, pure, re-up, reup

Etymology

From Old French puir, from Vulgar Latin *putīre, from Classical Latin putēre, present active infinitive of puteō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *puH-. The change from -ir to -er can also be seen in words such as contribuer (Old French contribuir, Latin contribuere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɥe/

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• Rhymes: -e

Verb

puer

1. (intransitive) to stink, to smell (bad)

Further reading

• “puer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• peur, pure, puré, repu, rupe, rupé

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ph₂weros, from *peh₂w-. Cognate to Oscan 𐌐𐌖𐌂𐌋𐌖𐌌 (puklum), Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “child”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.er/, [ˈpʊ.ɛr]

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Noun

puer m (genitive puerī); second declension

1. a child; chit
2. a boy; lad
3. a male servant or page; slave
4. a bachelor
5. boyhood (ex: in puero, "in his boyhood" or "as a boy")

See also

• puer on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

References

• puer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• puer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • from youth up: a puero (is), a parvo (is), a parvulo (is)
    
  • a boy ten years old: puer decem annorum
    
  • to entrust a child to the tuition of..: puerum alicui erudiendum or in disciplinam tradere
    
  • to teach children the rudiments: pueros elementa (prima) docere
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man: ex pueris excedere
    
• puer in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology

From the noun Puer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /puɐ̯/
• Rhymes: -uɐ
• Homophone: Puer

Pronoun

puer

1. few, some, a few
   • 2001, Pol Wilmes, Eng Klack fir eis Sprooch:

     All puer Woche fannt dir eist „Chamber-Blietchen“ an ärer Bréifkëscht, vläicht och op der Trap oder am Gank;

     Every few weeks we find our "Chamber-Blietchen" in our letter box, perhaps even on the stairs or in the hallway;