pulsus

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Esperanto

Verb

pulsus

  1. conditional of pulsi

Ido

Verb

pulsus

  1. conditional of pulsar

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

pellō +‎ -sus (action noun)

Noun

pulsus m (genitive pulsūs); fourth declension

  1. pulse, impulse, beat, stroke
    Synonyms: vulnus, colaphus, ictus, plāga
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pulsus pulsūs
Genitive pulsūs pulsuum
Dative pulsuī pulsibus
Accusative pulsum pulsūs
Ablative pulsū pulsibus
Vocative pulsus pulsūs
Descendants
Borrowings

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of pellō (push, expel).

Participle

pulsus (feminine pulsa, neuter pulsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. expelled, kicked out, having been kicked out.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.362:
      ‘spēs erat in cursū: nunc lare pulsa suō est.’
      “Hope was on course: Now, she has been expelled from her own home.”
      (The Gauls had invaded Rome; Mars asks Jupiter to intervene. The poetic voice of Mars may be understood figuratively as well as literally, because the invaders now occupied the Temple of Spes, or Hope.)
  2. pushed, shoved, having been pushed.
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative pulsus pulsa pulsum pulsī pulsae pulsa
Genitive pulsī pulsae pulsī pulsōrum pulsārum pulsōrum
Dative pulsō pulsō pulsīs
Accusative pulsum pulsam pulsum pulsōs pulsās pulsa
Ablative pulsō pulsā pulsō pulsīs
Vocative pulse pulsa pulsum pulsī pulsae pulsa

References

  • pulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pulsus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pulsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari