pusus

May be a back-formation from pusillus, with analogical vowel un-shortening (see the latter for details), from Proto-Indo-European *put-lo- (“son”). Alternatively, might be connected with puer, paucus and pūpus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). May be related to *pūttus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.s̬us]

pūsus m (genitive pūsī, feminine pūsa); second declension

1. a boy, a little boy

Second-declension noun.

• puellus
• puerulus
• puer
• pisinnus, pitinnus

• pusillus
• pūsiō

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “putus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 502

• “pusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pusus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016