puttana

From Old French putain, from Latin puta (“girl”).

• IPA^(key): /putˈta.na/, [put̪ˈt̪äːn̺ä]
• Stress: puttàna
• Hyphenation: put‧ta‧na

puttana f (plural puttane)

1. (derogatory, vulgar slang) whore, slut, hooker, harlot, tart (British)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVIII, lines 133–135, page 275:

     Taïde è, la puttana che rispuose ¶ al drudo suo quando disse ‘Ho io grazie ¶ grandi apo te?’: ‘Anzi maravigliose!’.

     Thais the harlot is it, who replied ¶ unto her paramour, when he said, 'Have I ¶ great gratitude from thee?'--'Nay, marvellous'

2. (derogatory, offensive) bitch
3. trollop, strumpet, whore, streetwalker

• vacca (literally “cow”)
• scrofa (literally “sow”)
• cagna (literally “bitch”)
• troia (literally “sow”)
• baldracca (slang used in Northern Italy)
• mignotta (slang used in Rome)
• smanfaraccia (slang used in Central Italy)
• barlenga (slang used in some Italian regions)

• figlio di puttana
• porca puttana (“fucking hell!”)
• puttanesca, alla puttanesca
• puttaniere
• puttanata
• puttanaio
• sputtanamento

• putta

• → Greek: πουτάνα (poutána)

• puntata