puce

See also: pucé, pūce, pūcē, and pucē

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French couleur puce (“flea-colored”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pūlex (“flea”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

   puce:  

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Translations

colour

• Finnish: punaisenruskea
• Greek: ερυθρόμαυρο n (erythrómavro)
• Japanese: 暗赤色 (あんせきしょく, ansekishoku)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: dypt rødt n, ildrødt n, loppefarge m, mørkt purpurrødt n, rødbrunt n
• Spanish: granate (es) (dark puce)
• Welsh: gwineugoch m, glasgoch m, piws m

Adjective

puce (comparative more puce, superlative most puce)

1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

Translations

colour

• Finnish: punaisenruskea
• Greek: ερυθρόμαυρος m (erythrómavros)
• Japanese: 暗赤色の (あんせきしょくの, ansekishoku no)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: dyp rød, ildrød, loppefarget, mørk purpurrød, rødbrun
• Welsh: gwineugoch, glasgoch, piws

See also

• Appendix:Colors

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French

Etymology

From Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, singular accusative of pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pys/

• audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

Noun

puce f (plural puces)

1. flea
2. chip (electronics), silicon chip
3. (typography) bullet
4. (endearing) sweetie

Verb

puce

1. first-person singular present indicative of pucer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pucer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
5. second-person singular imperative of pucer

Further reading

• “puce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Diminutive form of pȕto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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

References

• Template:R:sh:Skok1971