sutener

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

French soutenir

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -(ā)tōrem

Old French -or

Middle French -eur

French -eur

French souteneurbor.

Polish sutener

Borrowed from French souteneur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suˈtɛ.nɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnɛr
• Syllabification: su‧te‧ner

Noun

sutener m pers (related adjective sutenerski)

1. (formal) pimp, procurer, pander (person who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes)

   Synonyms: alfons, kupler, rajfur, stręczyciel

Declension

Declension of sutener

	singular	plural
nominative	sutener	sutenerzy, sutenery1
genitive	sutenera	sutenerów
dative	sutenerowi	sutenerom
accusative	sutenera	sutenerów
instrumental	sutenerem	sutenerami
locative	sutenerze	sutenerach
vocative	sutenerze	sutenerzy

¹Deprecative.

Derived terms

nouns

• sutenerstwo

Further reading

• “sutener”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “sutener”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Zygmunt Saloni, et al., editors (2020), “sutener”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[3], 4. online edition, Warszawa