pus

pus

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Pashto terms

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

• enPR: pŭs, IPA^(key): /pʌs/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌs

pus (uncountable)

2. (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.

• pus-gutted
• pussy, pusy
• puss (alternative spelling)

• puriform
• purulent
• pustulent
• suppure, suppurate, suppurative, suppurant

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

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

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

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

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

1. well (source of water)

• ubël

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

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.

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpus]

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

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

• purulent

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

pus

1. (archaic) more
2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)

   Synonym: més

   no en vull pus

   I don't want (any) more of it

• Found in expressions like despús-ahir o despús-demà

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin post.

pus

1. after

• “pus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

• sup

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

• IPA^(key): /pʏs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

pus n or m (uncountable)

1. pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)

   Synonym: etter

• → Papiamentu: pus

See pusu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/, [ˈpus̠]
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation^(key): pus

pus (informal)

1. mwah, smooch

• pus kii

• “pus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /py/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

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

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

• purulent

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pus

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pus m pl

1. (extremely rare) masculine plural of pu

• “pus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

pus f (invariable)

1. pus

   Synonyms: materia, apostema

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

• pos

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

pus

1. (archaic) after, behind

pus

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “pus”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pus”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʊs]

pus

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

   Synonym: meong

• “pus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).^[1]

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /pˠʌsˠ/^[3]

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

Alternative declension

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

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

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

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

• sup

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puːs/, [puːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pus/, [pus]

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

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

• “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^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

pus

1. Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus.

pus

1. cat

From Old French plus, from Latin.

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[4], 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.

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

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.

• “pus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pus” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

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

1. (informal) cat

   Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• pu (Mistralian)

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

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!

• Hyphenation: pus

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pus

1. plural of pu

Latin posuī

pus

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 234:

     Não pus nada no suco!

     I didn't put anything in the juice!

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).

• IPA^(key): [pus]

• Audio:

  (file)

pus

1. past participle of pune

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

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

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

1. pus

• “pus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

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

• IPA^(key): /pus/

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

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

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /pʰus/

pus

1. steam bath

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

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

• IPA^(key): /py/

pus

1. more