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 (usually uncountable, plural pura)

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

• “pus”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

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^[2], 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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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

• → Indonesian: pus
• → Papiamentu: pus

See pusu.

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

pus (informal)

1. mwah, smooch

• pus kii

• “pus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• 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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/ [ˈpʊs]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: pus
• Homophone: PUS

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

pus

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

   Synonym: meong

Borrowed from Dutch pus, from Latin pūs.

pus

2. (pathology) pus

   Synonym: nanah

• “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): [ˈpuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

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^[4], 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^[5], 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
   • 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)

• “pus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

• (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