puce

Etymology

From French couleur puce (“flea-colored”), from Latin pūlex (“flea”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

   puce colour:  

   dark puce colour:  

Adjective

puce (comparative more puce, superlative most puce)

1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

Etymology

From Latin pūlex, pulicis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pys/

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• Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

Noun

puce f (plural puces)

1. flea
2. chip (electronics), silicon chip

Verb

puce

1. first-person singular present indicative of pucer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pucer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
5. second-person singular imperative of pucer

Further reading

• “puce” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Diminutive form of pȕto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûtse/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ce

Noun

pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

1. button

References

• Skok, Petar (1972) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume II, Zagreb: JAZU, page 65