text: # 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.
  