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“purus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“purus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
purus 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)
purus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
pure, correct language: oratio pura, pura et emendata
incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis
to assume the toga virilis: togam virilem (puram) sumere
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 500-1