noun, feminine/pyt/plural: putes
whore, slut (prostitute); bitch, slut (promiscuous woman); fucking (used for emphasis)
“Aller aux putes” — To get oneself a whore
From Old French pute (nominative singular of putain) – perhaps from:. * a Vulgar Latin *pūtta, from a supposed Latin *puta (“girl”), female form of putus (“boy”) (a hapax legomenon of dubious reading) * from the feminine form of put (“stinking, fetid”), from Latin pūtidus (“stinking”), therefore effectively inherited from Latin pūtida; this is the preferred etymology of the Trésor de la langue française informatisé Cognate with puta in the Gallo-Romance and Ibero-Romance areas (including Catalan