# putative

## Français

### Forme d’adjectif

putative \py.ta.tiv\

* Féminin singulier de putatif.

## Anglais

### Étymologie

    (1432) Du latin putativus.

### Adjectif

putative \ˈpju.tə.tɪv\

* Putatif.
   * [T]he lady… insisted upon going herself, requesting me to mind for a second the baby... lo! the baby awoke and stared at me with a pair of big frightened eyes, which the little thing in another moment rolled in all directions, as if in search of its putative mother. — (Maurice Mauris, A Materialistic Artist, New York Times, 9 novembre 1879, p. 10)
   * Just as Prince Sihanouk is fronting for the Khmer Rouge today… so also was he their putative leader from 1970 to 1975. — (William E. Colby et Jeremy J. Stone, US must support Thailand if Cambodia is to survive, Milwaukee Sentinel (Los Angele Times Service), 28 octobre 1989 (consulté le 15 septembre 2009))
   * Karr’s past does raise suspicions. When he was arrested in Bangkok, he was living in a dormitory-like guesthouse in a neighborhood frequented by sex tourists. Of course, Karr’s putative pedophilia would not make him guilty of murder. — (Unmesh Kher, No Neat Endings for the JonBenet Case, Time, 18 août 2006)

**Synonymes**

* ostensible
* purported
* reputed
* supposed

### Prononciation

* (États-Unis) : \ˈpju.tə.tɪv\

## Italien

### Forme d’adjectif

putative \pu.ta.ˈti.ve\

* Féminin pluriel de putativo.
