puce
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pjuːs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈpjʉs/
- Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
[edit]puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)
- A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- puce:
- dark puce:
- 1881, Alvin Wood Chase, Dr. Chase's Recipes Or, Information for Everybody, page 596:
- For blacks, browns, puces, and violets, the acetate or tartrate of iron must be employed.
Translations
[edit]colour
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Adjective
[edit]puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest)
Descendants
[edit]- → Welsh: piws
Translations
[edit]colour
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See also
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]puce f (plural puces)
- flea
- chip (electronics), silicon chip
- (typography) bullet
- (endearing) sweetie (used to address a young girl, or to address a woman one is romantically involved with)
Derived terms
[edit]- excité comme une puce
- marché aux puces
- mettre la puce à l’oreille
- puces savantes
- sac à puces
- saut de puce
- secouer les puces
Verb
[edit]puce
- inflection of pucer:
Further reading
[edit]- “puce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Diminutive form of pȕto.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)
Declension
[edit]Declension of puce
Further reading
[edit]- “puce” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Skok, Petar (1972) “puce”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 65
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]puce (Cyrillic spelling пуце)
- inflection of puca:
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