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Added 2 October 2026

put

/pʊt/ symbol

In Latin: pōnō, locō Wiktionary

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ISO 639-3 language code for Putoh.

verb

To physically place (something or somebody, in, at, around, etc. someplace)
She put her books on the table.
To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign.
The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition).
Put your house in order!

noun

Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)
He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
the put of a ball
An old card game.

noun

A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

Origin

From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”).

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