pure
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pure"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Etymology tree
From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (non-rhotic)
- (England)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊə/, (cure-force-merger) /ˈpjɔː/
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /ˈpjɵː/, (cure-force-merger) /ˈpjoː/
- (Norfolk, cure–fir merger) IPA(key): /ˈpjɜː/
- (Northern England, sometimes) IPA(key): /ˈpjuː.ə/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpɪʊ.ə/
- (Australia, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈpjʉː.ə/, /ˈpjoː/
- (England)
- (rhotic)
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: pure
Adjective
[edit]pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- Synonyms: pristine, untouched, virgin; see also Thesaurus:pure
- Antonyms: dirty, flawed, impure; see also Thesaurus:impure
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records.
- Free of foreign material or pollutants.
- Synonyms: crude, natural, unrefined; see also Thesaurus:raw
- Antonyms: contaminated, impure; see also Thesaurus:contaminated
- 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
- A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy.
- 1837, Leitch Ritchie, Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, volume 1, page 225:
- As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme.
- 1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin[1], volume VI, number 4:
- "Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."
- Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
- Synonyms: innocent, chaste; see also Thesaurus:innocent
- Antonyms: corrupt, guilty, sinful; see also Thesaurus:guilty
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Timothy v:[22], folio cclxxviij, recto:
- Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure.
- Mere; that and that only.
- 2013 June 5, Ally Fogg, “How can you make driving more antisocial than it already is?”, in The Guardian[2], archived from the original on 18 March 2017:
- There can be few tautologies purer than the phrase "antisocial motoring". Nothing could be more antisocial than locking oneself into a steel box before hurtling down a Tarmac scar, cleaving urban and rural communities or unspoiled natural havens, past children held tight in the fearful grip of nervous parents while you fart toxic fumes in their general direction.
- (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- Antonym: applied
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
- (phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- (of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
- (programming) Having no side effects.
- a pure method
- (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
- 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun[3], archived from the original on 12 December 2022:
- Well when ah's youngah, ah'd just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- as pure as the driven snow
- fullblood
- pure air
- pure and simple
- pure as driven snow
- pure as the driven snow
- pureblood
- pureblooded
- pure blue
- purebred, pure-bred
- purebreed
- pure cancer
- pure collector
- pure country
- pure customer
- pure democracy
- pure ego
- pure endowment
- pure evil
- pure finder
- pure gatherer
- pure good
- pure-hearted
- pure imaginary number
- pure-impure
- pure laine
- pure land
- pure mathematics
- pure name
- pureness
- pure O
- pure-out
- pureplay, pure-play
- pure quartz
- pure quill
- pure salvage
- pure science
- pure sex
- pure virtual function
- pure virtual method
- purey
- purie
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]free of flaws or imperfections
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free of foreign material or pollutants
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free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean
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of a branch of science: done for its own sake
of sound: without harmonics or overtones
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Adverb
[edit]pure (not comparable)
- (Liverpool, Scotland) to a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
- You’re pure busy.
- 1996, Trainspotting (film)
- I just get pure shy with the interview cats.
Translations
[edit]extremely
Verb
[edit]pure (third-person singular simple present pures, present participle puring, simple past and past participle pured)
- (golf) To hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately.
- Tiger Woods pured his first drive straight down the middle of the fairway.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cleanse; to refine.
Noun
[edit]pure (countable and uncountable, plural pures)
- One who, or that which, is pure.
- 1845, The Lancet, page 187:
- ... the establishment of an inferior College, and the consequent connexion of the many thousands of British practitioners in medicine and surgery with a subordinate institution, and one that should be subservient to the government of the pures.
- c. 1870, D. K. Gavan, Rocky Road to Dublin:
- Took a drop of the pure, to keep my spirits from sinking, […]
- 1998, Christopher Leigh Connery, The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 30:
- All interpretive frames will impose their categories on the object of historical analysis, and I am not proposing that this narrative of the "pures"; be rejected in favor of some phantasmatic framework that claims to derive more purely from the sources themselves. I will show in chapter 3 that, since the "pures" possibly did not even exist […]
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pjʊə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pjʊɹ/
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]pure (uncountable)
- Alternative form of puer (“dung (e.g. of dogs)”).
- 1851, H. Mayhew, London Labour and the London poor, vII. 142/1:
- […] Dogs'-dung is called ‘Pure’, from its cleansing and purifying properties.
- 2001, Wendy Lawton, chapter 8, in The Tinker's Daughter:
- Mary smelled the rancid odor of the tannery on the right side of the road. […]
"What is that, Mary?" Jake asked.
"'Tis a bag for collecting pure. That is going to be your job, Jake. You are to collect pure."
"Pure? What is pure?"
"Pure is another word for dung," Mary answered.
- 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam, page 28:
- […] surely there was something better for him than chasing the pure (footnote: A term, technically speaking, for dog muck, much prized by the tanneries.) […]
Further reading
[edit]- “pure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “pure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin pūre, the adverb of pūrus (“clean, pure”); or the definite form of pur (“pure”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
- complete
- (adverbial) completely
Inflection
[edit]| positive | comparative | superlative | |
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite common singular | pure | — | —2 |
| indefinite neuter singular | pure | — | —2 |
| plural | pure | — | —2 |
| definite attributive1 | pure | — | — |
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pure c (singular definite pureen, plural indefinite pureer)
Inflection
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | pure | pureen | pureer | pureerne |
| genitive | pures | pureens | pureers | pureernes |
Etymology 3
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
- inflection of puur:
Esperanto
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]pure
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]pure
- inflection of purra:
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
- inflection of pur:
Indonesian
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch puree, from French purée, from Middle French puree, from Old French puree, from Latin pūrō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈpure/ [ˈpu.re]
- Rhymes: -ure
- Syllabification: pu‧re
Noun
[edit]pure (plural pure-pure)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pure”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Latin pūrē, the adverb of pūrus.[1]
Adverb
[edit]pure
- too, also, as well
- Synonym: anche
- well, surely
- please, by all means
- if you like; if you want (etc.)
- Parli pure (with third-person subjunctive) ― Let him speak if he wants to
- Parla pure (with imperative) ― Talk if you want
- Parli pure (with polite imperative) ― Talk if you want
Conjunction
[edit]pure
References
[edit]- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951; headword pure
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.rɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.re]
Noun
[edit]pūre
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.rɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.re]
Adjective
[edit]pūre
Etymology 3
[edit]From pūrus (“clean; pure”) + -ē (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.reː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.re]
Adverb
[edit]pūrē (comparative pūrius, superlative pūrissimē, adjective pūrus)
- clearly, brightly, cleanly
- correctly, faultlessly, perfectly, purely
- Synonym: ēmendātē
- loqui pure
- to speak correctly
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pure
References
[edit]- “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 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)
- (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure (comparative purer, superlative purest)
- pure, unadulterated, undiluted, untarnished
- entire, total, all
- perfect, wonderful, unflawed
- morally clean, pure, or upstanding
- chaste
- true, real, genuine, not counterfeit
- clear, obvious, simple
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “pūr(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 April 2018.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural pureer, definite plural pureene)
- alternative spelling of puré
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural purear, definite plural pureane)
- alternative spelling of puré
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
Rapa Nui
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *pule.
Noun
[edit]pure
Scots
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure (comparative mair pure, superlative maist pure)
- completely, utterly
- The auld man wis pure ragin!
- The old man was absolutely furious!
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pure class IX (plural pure class X)
Swedish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pure
Anagrams
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