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Translingual

Symbol

pus

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto.

See also

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

Noun

pus (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.
    Pus was seeping out of the wound.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (rare) To emit pus.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m (plural puse, definite pusi, definite plural puset)

  1. well (source of water)

Declension

Synonyms

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

Noun

pus

  1. cat
    Synonym: tusa
    Lebe bai beta kasi makang pus dar mau kas makang orang pamalas.
    I would rather give food to the cat than to give food to the lazy.

References

  • D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs (early 19th century), meaning the same.[1]

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

  1. pus

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (many). Compare Occitan pus, French plus.

Adverb

pus

  1. (archaic) more
  2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)
    Synonym: més
    no en vull pus
    I don't want (any) more of it
Usage notes

Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin post.

Conjunction

pus

  1. after

References

  1. ^ pus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Further reading

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

pus

  1. genitive plural of pusa

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

Noun

pus n or m (uncountable)

  1. pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)
    Synonym: etter

Descendants

  • Papiamentu: pus

Finnish

Etymology

See pusu.

Pronunciation

Interjection

pus (informal)

  1. mwah, smooch

See also

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle French from Latin pus, meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

  1. pus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pus

  1. first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

pus m pl

  1. (extremely rare) masculine plural of pu

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

Noun

pus f (invariable)

  1. pus
    Synonyms: materia, apostema

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese pos, pus, from Latin post.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Preposition

pus

  1. (archaic) after, behind

Etymology 3

Verb

pus

  1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

Pronunciation

Noun

pus

  1. puss: a term to address or call a cat
    Synonym: meong

References

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (lip).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
  2. snout
    Synonyms: cab, glomhar, gulba, smaois, smuilc, smúrlach, smut, soc, srubh

Declension

Declension of pus (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative pus pusa
vocative a phuis a phusa
genitive puis pus
dative pus pusa
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an pus na pusa
genitive an phuis na bpus
dative leis an bpus
don phus
leis na pusa
Alternative declension
Declension of pus (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative pus pusanna
vocative a phuis a phusanna
genitive puis pusanna
dative pus pusanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an pus na pusanna
genitive an phuis na bpusanna
dative leis an bpus
don phus
leis na pusanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of pus
radical lenition eclipsis
pus phus bpus

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 bus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 166, page 85
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 360, page 123

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpus/
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Hyphenation: pùs

Noun

pus m (invariable)

  1. pus, matter

Further reading

  • pus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *puos, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-. Cognate with Sanskrit पुवस् (púvas), Ancient Greek πύον (púon), πύθω (púthō, to rot), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, foul), Old English fūl (foul), English foul.

Pronunciation

Noun

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

  1. pus
  2. foul, corrupt matter

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)

Lushootseed

Noun

pus

  1. Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus.

Miskito

Noun

pus

  1. cat

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Adverb

pus

  1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 537:
      Sème tes concombres en Mars,
      Tu n' airas qu' faire de pouque ni de sac;
      Sème-les en Avril, tu en airas ùn petit;
      Mé, j' les semerai en Mai;
      Et j'en airai pûs que té.
      Sow your cucumbers in March,
      you will want neither bag nor sack;
      sow them in April, you will have a few;
      I will sow mine in May,
      and I shall have more than you.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

  1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

Etymology 2

Verb

pus

  1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural puser, definite plural pusene)

  1. (informal) cat
    Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt
    Anne har en kjempesøt pus.
    Anne has an adorable cat.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. (informal) cat
    Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt

References

Occitan

Alternative forms

  • pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

  1. more

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: pus

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m (plural puses)

  1. pus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pus

  1. plural of pu

Etymology 3

Latin posuī

Verb

pus

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr

Romanian

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

Participle

pus

  1. past participle of pune

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite pus pusă puși puse
definite pusul pusa pușii pusele
genitive-
dative
indefinite pus puse puși puse
definite pusului pusei pușilor puselor

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpus/
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification: pus

Noun

pus m or (also in some parts of Latin America) f (plural puses)

  1. pus
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 302:
      Para el cachín (úlcera inveterada), es bueno tomar el polvo de una culebra quemada, y aplica a la úlcera una lagartija, a la cual se ha despojado de las patas y la cola, con el objeto de que ésta chupe el pus.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bus (steam). Cognate with Tuvan бус (bus, steam), Bashkir боҫ (boś, steam), Chuvash пӑс (păs, steam), etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

  1. haze

Declension

Inflection
Nominative pus
Definite accusative pusu
Singular Plural
Nominative pus puslar
Definite accusative pusu pusları
Dative pusa puslara
Locative pusta puslarda
Ablative pustan puslardan
Genitive pusun pusların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular pusum puslarım
2nd singular pusun pusların
3rd singular pusu pusları
1st plural pusumuz puslarımız
2nd plural pusunuz puslarınız
3rd plural pusları pusları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular pusumu puslarımı
2nd singular pusunu puslarını
3rd singular pusunu puslarını
1st plural pusumuzu puslarımızı
2nd plural pusunuzu puslarınızı
3rd plural puslarını puslarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular pusuma puslarıma
2nd singular pusuna puslarına
3rd singular pusuna puslarına
1st plural pusumuza puslarımıza
2nd plural pusunuza puslarınıza
3rd plural puslarına puslarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular pusumda puslarımda
2nd singular pusunda puslarında
3rd singular pusunda puslarında
1st plural pusumuzda puslarımızda
2nd plural pusunuzda puslarınızda
3rd plural puslarında puslarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular pusumdan puslarımdan
2nd singular pusundan puslarından
3rd singular pusundan puslarından
1st plural pusumuzdan puslarımızdan
2nd plural pusunuzdan puslarınızdan
3rd plural puslarından puslarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular pusumun puslarımın
2nd singular pusunun puslarının
3rd singular pusunun puslarının
1st plural pusumuzun puslarımızın
2nd plural pusunuzun puslarınızın
3rd plural puslarının puslarının

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

  • (Zinacantán) IPA(key): /pʰus/

Noun

pus

  1. steam bath

References

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (many).

Pronunciation

Adverb

pus

  1. more