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pūtĭdus, a, um, adj. [puteo], rotten, decaying, stinking, fetid (syn. foetidus).

  1. I. Lit.: caro, Cic. Pis. 9, 19: aper, Mart. 3, 50, 8: fungus, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 7, 23: frons, Cato ap. Plin. 17, 9, 6, § 55: uvae, Varr. ap. Non. 152, 23: vinum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 125: putidae naves et sentinosae, Cato ap. Non. 152, 25: navis, Caecil. ib. 152, 26: paries pictus, Afran. ib. 152, 28.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. In contemptuous lang., of old, half-rotten, withered persons: homo putide, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 44: moecha, Cat. 43, 11; so, femina, Hor. Epod. 8, 1.
      Comp.: putidius cerebrum, more withered, rotten, addled, Hor. S. 2, 3, 75.
    2. B. Of style, unnatural, disagreeable, affected, disgusting: cum etiam Demosthenes exagitetur ut putidus, Cic. Or. 8, 27: molesta et putida videri, id. de Or. 3, 13, 51: litterae neque expressae neque oppressae, ne aut obscurum esset aut putidum, id. Off. 1, 37, 133: vereor, ne putidum sit scribere ad te, quam sim occupatus, id. Att. 1, 14, 1.
      Sup.: jactatio putidissima, Petr. 73.
      Hence, adv.: pūtĭdē, disgustingly, disagreeably, affectedly: dicere, Cic. Brut. 82, 284: loqui, Sen. Ep. 75, 1.
      Comp.: nolo exprimi litteras putidius, nolo obscurari neglegentius, too precisely, Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41.