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puta

Pronunciation: [ˈpu.tə]

“puta” is a Catalan word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. whore, slut

adjective

  1. fucking, goddamn, used with feminine nouns.

interjection

  1. fucking, goddamn, damn

In Catalan

  1. prostituta
  2. murri
  3. Home murri

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”).

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