FromLatinputeal, fromputeālis, fromputeus(“well”) +-ālis(“-al:formingadjs”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjuːti.əl/

puteal (pluralputeals)

1. (architecture) Anenclosure around awell to prevent people from falling into it.

1849-1850,John Weale,Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering

• Paulet,tulpae

A nominalization of the neuter formputeāle of the adjectiveputeālis(“well-related, pertaining to a well”), with apocope of finale. Shortening of an originally long vowel before word-final /l/ is regular in words of more than one syllable. Equivalent toputeus(“well”) +‎-al.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ˈpʊ.te.aɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.t̪e.al]

puteal n (genitiveputeālis);third declension

1. aputeal(stone enclosure or curb around a well)
2. a structure of the same form marking a sacred site

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• bidental

• “puteal”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “puteal”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “puteal”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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