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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Putative \Pu"ta*tive\, adjective [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See {Pure}, and cf. {Amputate}, {Compute}, {Dispute}, {Impute}.] Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. ''His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends.'' --E. Hall.
Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority. --Jer. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
putative
adjective: commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the reputed (or purported) author of the book"; "the supposed date of birth" [syn: {putative(a)}, {purported(a)}, {reputed(a)}, {supposed(a)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "putative": accountable, accounted as, alleged, ascribable, assignable, assumed, assumptive, attributable, attributed, charged, conjectural, conjectured, credited, deemed, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, explicable, given, granted, hypothetical, imputable, imputed, inferred, owing, postulated, postulational, premised, presumed, presumptive, referable, referred to, reputed, supposed, suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, taken for granted, traceable, understood
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