pur

pur (plural purs)

1. Dated form of purr (low murmuring sound as of a cat)
   • 1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)

     The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.

pur (third-person singular simple present purs, present participle purring, simple past and past participle purred)

1. Dated form of purr
   • John G. C. Brainard

     And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.

   • 1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)

     It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur.

• Pru, RUP, U-RP, urp

• pour, pür
• Puur

From Middle High German būre, gibūre, from Old High German gibūro, from būr (“peasant”). Cognate with German Bauer, Dutch buur, English bower.

pur m

1. (Gressoney, Carcoforo) farmer

• “pur” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Occitan pur, from Latin pūrus.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpur/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾ/
• Rhymes: -uɾ

pur (feminine pura, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)

1. pure
2. not contaminated
3. innocent
4. authentic, genuine

• impur

• puresa
• puritat

• “pur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Middle English pur (“pure”), from Old French pur (“pure”)[1].

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): /pyːr/
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): /piːr/

pur

1. pure, absolute

• puor

From Latin pāret, third person singular present active indicative of pareō.

pur

1. to appear

From Middle French pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.

• IPA^(key): /pyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

pur (feminine singular pure, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)

1. pure (unspoilt)
2. pure (undiluted)

• “pur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin pūrus.

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• Rhymes: -uːɐ̯
• IPA^(key): /puːɐ̯/

pur (comparative purer, superlative am pursten)

1. pure (free of flaws or imperfections)

• pur in Duden online

pur (comparative plus pur, superlative le plus pur)

1. pure

pur

1. Apocopic form of pure

pur

1. Apocopic form of pure

From Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.

pur m

1. (Jersey) pure

From Latin pūrus.

pur m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pure)

1. pure

• French: pur
  • → Romanian: pur
• Norman: pur
• → Middle English: pure, pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyre
  • Scots: puir, pure
  • English: pure
  • → Cornish: pur

See por

pur

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of por

• IPA^(key): /pur/

Borrowed from Latin pūrus, French pur.

pur m or n (feminine singular pură, masculine plural puri, feminine and neuter plural pure)

1. pure, clean, clear
2. mere

• clar, curat, fin, cast

Variant of por. Probably from Latin porrum.

pur m (plural puri)

1. sand leek (Allium rotundum)
2. serpent's garlic

From Latin pūrus

• (Puter, Vallader) pür

pur m (feminine singular pura, masculine plural purs, feminine plural puras)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pure

• (Sutsilvan) spir

Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Bauer, Dutch boer.

pur m (plural purs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) peasant, farmer
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader, chess) pawn

• (Surmiran) pour
• (Vallader) paur (peasant, farmer)

Borrowed from Latin pūrus.

• Rhymes: -ʉːr

pur

1. (somewhat dated) pure

• pur förvåning
• purpur

Borrowed from Latin pūrus.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /pɨːr/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /piːr/

pur (feminine singular pur, plural pur, equative pured, comparative purach, superlative puraf)

1. pure