puça

• pulça

Inherited from Old Catalan puça~pulça, probably back-formed from pulces, the plural of pulç, from Latin pūlicem. Compare Occitan piuse, French puce.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpu.sa]

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puça f (plural puces)

1. flea

• pugó

• “puça”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “puça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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puça

1. third-person singular past historic of pucer