pus

From Latin pūs, meaning the same.

• enPR: pŭs, IPA^(key): /pʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

pus (uncountable)

1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

• pussy

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

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

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

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

pus m

1. well

• ubël

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/

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

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

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

pus

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

   no en vull pus

   I don't want more of it

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin post.

pus

1. after

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

• sup

• IPA^(key): /py/

• Audio

  (file)

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

Borrowed from Latin pus, meaning the same.

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

See pouvoir

pus

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

See paître

pus

1. (extremely rare) masculine plural past participle of paître

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

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

• IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/

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

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. (anatomy) snout

Alternative declension

• (snout): cab m, glomhar m, gulba f, smaois f, smuilc f, smúrlach f, smut m, soc m, srubh f

• pusach (“pouting, in a huff; whimpering, ready to cry”, adjective)
• pusaire m, pusaí m, pusaíoch m (“sulky person; blubberer, whimperer”)
• puslach m (“muzzle”)

• “4 bus (‘lip’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “pus” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• "pus" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Borrowed from Latin pūs.

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

• mucopus
• purulento
• purulenza
• pustola
• pio-

From Proto-Italic *pūs, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-.

Cognate with Sanskrit पूयति (pū́yati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon, “discharge from a sore”), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”), English foul.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /puːs/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Third declension neuter.

• pūrulentus
• suppūrō

• 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, 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)
    

pus

1. cat

From Old French plus, from Latin.

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/ (example of pronunciation)

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

1. (informal) cat

• katt
• pusekatt, kattepus

• “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!

Borrowed from Latin pūs, from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot, stink”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/
• Hyphenation: pus

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)s/

pus

1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of pôr
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, 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]

pus

1. past participle of pune

Borrowed from Latin pūs.

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

From Old Turkic bus (bus), from Proto-Turkic [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /pus/

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

• (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 *plē-, *pelu- (“many”).

pus

1. more