adjective putrid, stinking, rotten, fetid DN.ii.353 (khaṇḍāni pūtīni); MN.i.73, MN.i.89 = MN.iii.92 (aṭṭhikāni pūtīni); Vin.iii.236 (anto˚); SN.iii.54; Pv.i.3#2; Pv.i.6#1 (= kuṇapagandha Pv-a.32); Vism.261 (= pūtika at Kp-a.61), Vism.645 (˚pajā itthi, in simile); Pv-a.67; Sdhp.258
■ See also puccaṇḍatā.

• -kāya foul body, mass of corruption, epithet of the human body MN.ii.65; SN.i.131; SN.iii.120; Thig.466 Thag-a.283; Snp-a.40; Dhp-a.iii.111.
• -kummāsa rotten junket Vism.343.
• -gandha bad smell, ill-smelling Pv.i.3#1 (= kuṇapa˚ Pv-a.15); Ja.v.72.
• -dadhi rancid curds Vism.362; Vb-a.68; cp. pūti-takka Vism.108
• -deha = ˚kāya SN.i.236.
• -maccha stinking fish MN.iii.168 (+ ˚kuṇapa & ˚kummāsa); in simile at Iti.68 = Ja.iv.435 = Ja.vi.236 = Kp-a.127.
• -mukha having a putrid mouth Snp-a.458 (āsīvisa); Pv-a.12, Pv-a.14.
• -mutta strong-smelling urine, usually urine of cattle used as medicine by the bhikkhu Vin.i.58 = Vin.i.96 (˚bhesajja); MN.i.316; Iti.103; Vv-a.5 (˚harītaka).
• -mūla having fetid roots MN.i.80
• -latā “stinking creeper,” a sort of creeper or shrub (Coccolus cordifolius, otherwise gaḷoci) Snp.29 = Mil.369; Vism.36, Vism.183; Kp-a.47 (˚saṇṭhāna); Dhp-a.iii.110 Dhp-a.iii.111 (taruṇā galoci-latā pūtilatā ti vuccati).
• -lohitaka with putrid blood Pv.i.7#8 (= kuṇapa˚ Pv-a.37).
• -sandeha = ˚kāya Dhp.148.

cp. Sk. pūti, pūyati to fester; Gr. πύχω, πϋον = pus; Lat. pūtidus putrid; Goth. fūls = Ger. faul, E foul