put-, puta-, -pute, -puter, -puting, -putate, -putation, -putative +

(Latin: to think over, to consider, to reckon, to count; to trim, to prune, to lop, to cut, to clean)

From Latin, puto-, putare: literally; especially of trees, "to lop, to prune" and "to cleanse, to clear"; then (1) "to clear up, to settle"; especially, of accounts; (2) "to reckon, to estimate, to value"; (3) "to consider, to hold, to believe, to think".

Cassell's New Latin Dictinary; Funk & wagnalls Company; New York; 1968.


discount
1. To deduct or subtract from a cost or the price of something.
2. To purchase or to sell (a bill, note, or other commercial paper) at a reduction equal to the amount of interest that will accumulate before it matures.
3. To lend money on (a commercial paper not immediately payable) after deducting the interest.
4. To sell or offer something for sale at a reduced price.
5. To reduce in quantity or value.
6. To underestimate the significance or effectiveness of something or someone; to minimize: "Her husband took care not to discount his wife's accomplishments."
7. To regard with doubt or disbelief.
discountable
Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
discounter
1. Someone who buys, sells, or lends money on financial instruments at a reduced price.
2. Anyone who discounts something as unimportant, irrelevant, or untrue.
3. A person who discounts something to lessen or to absorb its impact.
disputable
1. Capable of being disproved.
2. Open to argument or debate.
3. Not definitely true or valid, and so it is debatable or open to argument.
disputably
A reference to something which is open to dispute; debatable: "Her testimony was disputably inaccurate."
disputant
1. Someone who is good at, or who enjoys controversy.
2. Anyone who is involved in an argument or a legal dispute.
3. A person who disputes; a debater.
disputation
1. The formal presentation of, and opposition to, a stated proposition (usually followed by a vote).
2. The act of disputing or debating; a verbal controversy; a discussion or debate. 3. An academic exercise consisting of a formal debate or an oral defense of a thesis between its maintainer and its opponents.
disputatious
1. Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
2. A tendency to argue or disagree without adequate cause.
3. Being fond of, or given to, disputation; argumentative; contentious.
disputatiously
1. In a disputatious manner.
2. A reference relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
dispute
1. A disagreement or argument about something important.
2. To question or to doubt the truth or validity of something.
3. To disagree or to argue about something.
4. To fight for or to strive to win something.
5. To strive against or to resist something.
disputer
1. Someone who engages in discussion or argument; a debater.
2. Anyone who quarrels angrily.
disreputable
1. Lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance.
2. Lacking respectability on the basis of past or present actions.
3. Discreditable; dishonorable.
3. Shabby or shoddy; of poor quality or condition: "They wore the most disreputable clothes imaginable."
disreputably
In a disreputable manner.
disrepute
1. The condition of being held in low esteem.
2. A lack, or loss, of a good reputation or respect.
3. Damage to, or loss of, one's reputation.
Facies tua computat annos.
Your face keeps count of the years.

Also interpreted as, "Check the mirror, not the calendar."


Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.


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