pulso

Borrowed from Spanish pulso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

púlso (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜎ᜔ᜐᜓ)

1. (physiology) pulse
2. (anatomy) wrist

   Synonym: bubutkan

Inherited from Spanish pulso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/,
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

pulso

1. pulse

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/

pulso (accusative singular pulson, plural pulsoj, accusative plural pulsojn)

1. beat

   Synonyms: tempo, takto

2. pulse

   Synonym: korbatado

• ĉefpulso (“downbeat”)

• pulsi (“to beat, blink, pulsate, throb”)

Learned borrowing from Latin pulsus (“beat; pulse”), from pellō (“I drive; I strike”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/
• Rhymes: -ulso
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (cardiology, uncountable) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)
2. (cardiology, uncountable) heart rate (number of heart beats per unit of time)
3. pulsation (single beat)
4. (electronics) electric pulse
5. (anatomy) wrist (hand joint)

   Synonym: boneca (obsolete)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pulso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pulso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pulso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpul.so/
• Rhymes: -ulso
• Hyphenation: pùl‧so

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsare

• spulo, spulò

Inherited from Old Spanish pulso, polso (“pulse”), from Latin pulsus.

pulso m (Hebrew spelling פולסו)

1. (anatomy) wrist
   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎, Editions Vidas Largas, page 68:

     Eran fetchas de dos plakas grandes, kuvriendo kaje todo el braso (del kovdo al pulso), tenidas entre eyas por unas kadenikas ke fazian el torno del braso.

     They were made from two big slabs, covering almost the entire arm (from the elbow to the wrist), meeting each other through some necklaces that went around the arm.

• puso

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsar
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of pulsar

• pultō (pre-Classical)

Frequentative of pellō (“drive, strike”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

pulsō (present infinitive pulsāre, perfect active pulsāvī, supine pulsātum); first conjugation

1. to push, strike, beat, batter, hammer; knock on; pulsate

   Synonyms: mulcō, feriō, impingō, ī̆cō, afflīgō, caedō, tangō, verberō, accīdō, percutiō, discutiō, pellō, percellō

2. (figuratively) to urge or drive on, impel, move, agitate, disturb, disquiet
3. (figuratively) to accuse, defame; injure, insult

   Synonyms: obloquor, maledīcō, crīminor, arcessō, increpō, castīgō, corripiō, arripiō, accūsō, incūsō, compellō, arguō, īnsultō

4. (figuratively) to remove, put out of the way, drive away; dispel

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

pulsō

1. masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of pulsus

• pellō
• pulsiō
• pulsuōsus
• pulsus

• “pulso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pulso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
    

• polus

• polso

Inherited from Latin pulsus.

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (physiology) pulse

• Ladino: pulso, puso, פולסו, פוסו
• Spanish: pulso
  • → Chavacano: pulso
  • → Tagalog: pulso

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “pulso”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 416

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ulsu, (Brazil) -uwsu
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

Borrowed from Latin pulsus (“beat; pulse”), from pellō (“to drive; to strike”).

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (cardiology, uncountable) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)

   Synonym: pulsação

2. (cardiology, uncountable) heart rate (number of heart beats per unit of time)
3. pulsation (single beat)

   Synonyms: batida, pulsação

4. (anatomy) wrist (hand joint)

   Synonym: punho

5. (electronics) electric pulse

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsar

• “pulso”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “pulso”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “pulso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “pulso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “pulso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pulso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/

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• Rhymes: -ulso
• Syllabification: pul‧so

Inherited from Old Spanish pulso, polso (“pulse”), from Latin pulsus.

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (physiology) pulse
2. (sports) arm-wrestle

   Synonym: pulseada

   • 2021 May 19, Laura J. Varo, ““Es la ‘marcha negra’, venimos de todo Marruecos””, in El País‎:

     Más de 8.000 personas han accedido a la ciudad, a nado o a pie, sorteando las rocas, a través de los espigones de Benzú, al norte, y del Tarajal, al sur, como consecuencia del pulso diplomático que ha echado Rabat a Madrid.

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3. (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) aim

   Synonym: puntería

• → Chavacano: pulso
• → Tagalog: pulso

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsar

• “pulso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024
• “pulso”, in Diccionario de americanismos (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language , 2010

Borrowed from Spanish pulso.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/ , /pulˈso/
• Rhymes: -ulso, -o
• Syllabification: pul‧so

pulso or pulsó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎ᜔ᜐᜓ)

1. (physiology) pulse

   Synonym: pintig

2. (anatomy) wrist
3. feeling or opinion of a group of people

• pulos