- 1推定的、據稱的
When something is putative, people take it to be true, or treat it as true, without a final proof. A putative father is the man named as the father before a test has settled it. A putative leader is the person others treat as being in charge. You meet this word in law, news, and university writing, not in a chat with friends. It is a cool, careful word: the writer is reporting a claim, not swearing the claim is right. Though actually, the tidy line “believed by most people” is a little too tidy. Writers often use putative when only some people believe it, or when a court has not decided yet. It does not mean famous, and it does not mean real. If you want “maybe later,” that is potential — a different word.
組成First attested around 1432, from Middle French putatif, from Latin putātīvus (“supposed, purported”), from putātus (“thought”), from putō (“to think, to consider, to reckon”).
同家族的字
- computesame Latin putō, “to reckon”: compute is to reckon together
- disputesame Latin putō: to argue a claim back and forth
- reputationsame Latin putō through reputare, “to think over”; what people think of you
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
putativeadj/ˈpjuː.tə.tɪv/
- 1
Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; generally assumed.
- Just as Prince Sihanouk is fronting for the Khmer Rouge today . . . so also was he their putative leader from 1970 to 1975.
- If they are in fact sound, then, of course, desire-utilitarianism need not account for the putative wrongness of infanticide.
- 2
Accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
- In answer to the objection, that if a thing is only putative, it is fictitious
- [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.
- 3
Alleged, purported, ostensible, professed.
- A putative love tonic was made from the water in which myrtle leaves and flowers had been steeped.
- 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.
- 4
Prospective, potential, proposed.
- Paralleling this extension of government control was the development of a formally constituted opposition […] In some cases a former Prime Minister was clearly acknowledged as leader and putative Prime Minister, in others a generally-accepted leader emerged.
- She requested that no announcement be made of the promised book until she had more of it down on paper. Having put some distance between herself and her putative book, she relaxed by continuing to lecture and to work on other projects.
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