puce

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From French couleur puce (“flea-colored”), from Latin pūlex (“flea”).

Noun

puce (plural puces)

1. a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

   puce colour:

   dark puce colour:

Translations

colour

Finnish: punaisenruskea Japanese: 暗赤色 (あんせきしょく, ansekishoku)

Norwegian: dypt rødt (no) n., ildrødt (no) n., loppefarge (no) m., mørkt purpurrødt (no) n., rødbrunt (no) n.

Adjective

puce (comparative more puce, superlative most puce)

1. Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

Translations

colour

Finnish: punaisenruskea Japanese: 暗赤色の (あんせきしょくの, ansekishoku no)

Norwegian: dyp rød (no), ildrød (no), loppefarget (no), mørk purpurrød (no), rødbrun (no)

See also

• Appendix:Colors

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French

Etymology

From Latin pūlex, pulicis.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /pys/, SAMPA: /pys/
• Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

Noun

puce f. (plural puces)

1. flea
2. chip (electronics), silicon chip

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pûtse/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ce

Noun

pȕce n. (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

1. button

Declension

    declension of puce

	singular	plural
nominative	pȕce	pucèta
genitive	pȕceta	pucétā
dative	pȕcetu	pucètima
accusative	pȕce	pucèta
vocative	pȕce	pucèta
locative	pȕcetu	pucètima
instrumental	pȕcetom	pucètima

See also the collective noun pȕcād.