pus

Etymology

From Latin pūs, meaning the same.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭs, IPA^(key): /pʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Noun

pus (uncountable)

1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)

1. (rare) To emit pus.
   • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pus.

Anagrams

• 'sup, PSU, SUP, Sup., UPS, USP, psu, sup, sup., ups

Etymology

Probably from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m

1. well

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/

Etymology 1

From Latin pūs, meaning the same.

Etymology 2

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *plē-, *pelu- (“many”).

Etymology 3

From Latin post

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

Anagrams

• sup

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, put, pût

Etymology 1

From Latin pus, meaning the same.

Etymology 2

See pouvoir

Etymology 3

See paître

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/

Noun

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. (anatomy) snout

Mutation

References

• “4 bus (‘lip’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “pus” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Further reading

• "pus" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Etymology

From Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pūs, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-.

Cognate with Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon, “discharge from a sore”), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”), English foul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puːs/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/

Noun

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

References

• pus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

Noun

pus

1. cat

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Etymology 2

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)

1. (informal) cat

References

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

1. more
   • 19^th Century, Joseph Roumanille, Poésies diverses recueillies par Joseph Roumanille:

     Mai iéu siéu pus urous qu'un rèi !

     But I am happier than a king!

Etymology 1

From Latin pūs, from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot, stink”).

Etymology 2

Etymology

Past participle of pune. Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse, or from a hypothetical earlier form *post, from Latin postus, syncopated form of positus (compare also adăpost, where this was preserved).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pus]

Participle

pus

1. past participle of pune

Etymology

From Latin pūs

Noun

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

Etymology

From Old Turkic bus, from Proto-Turkic [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pus/

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /pʰus/

Noun

pus

1. steam bath

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Etymology

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *plē-, *pelu- (“many”).

Adverb

pus

1. more