pus

See also: puss, PUS, puś, -pus, and Puś

English

A swollen, pus-filled eye resulting from infection by conjunctivitis

Etymology

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From Latin pūs, meaning the same.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭs, IPA^(key): /pʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Noun

pus (uncountable)

1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Derived terms

• pussy

Translations

fluid found in regions of infection

• Albanian: qelb (sq) m
• Arabic: قَيْح m (qayḥ), صَدِيد m (ṣadīd), مِدَة f (mida)

  Egyptian Arabic: مدة f (meda), صديد m (ṣadīd)

• Armenian: թարախ (hy) (tʻarax)
• Aromanian: pronjiu m, pronju, proanji, proanje
• Azerbaijani: irin (az)
• Bashkir: эрен (eren)
• Belarusian: гной m (hnoj)
• Bengali: পূঁয (pũj)
• Bulgarian: гной (bg) m (gnoj)
• Burmese: ပြည် (my) (prany)
• Cappadocian Greek: ταράχι (taráchi)
• Catalan: pus (ca) m
• Central Melanau: nanak
• Chamicuro: kajshali
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 膿／脓 (nung⁴), 脓 (nung⁴)

  Mandarin: 膿／脓 (zh) (nóng), 脓 (zh) (nóng)

• Czech: hnis (cs) m
• Danish: pus n, materie c
• Dutch: etter (nl) m, pus (nl) n
• Esperanto: puso
• Faroese: vágur m
• Fijian: nana (fj)
• Finnish: mätä (fi), märkä (fi), visva (fi)
• French: pus (fr) m
• Galician: pus (gl) m, brume (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩირქი (čirki)
• German: Eiter (de) m
• Greek: πύον (el) n (pýon)

  Ancient: πύον n (púon)

• Hebrew: מֻגְלָה (he) f
• Hindi: पीब (pīb), मवाद (hi) (mavād), पस (hi) m (pas), पीप (hi) m (pīp), पूय (hi) m (pūy)
• Hungarian: genny (hu)
• Icelandic: gröftur (is) m
• Ido: puso (io)
• Indonesian: nanah (id)
• Irish: angadh m, braon m
• Italian: pus (it) m
• Japanese: 膿 (ja) (うみ, umi)
• Kazakh: ірің (ırıñ)
• Khmer: ខ្ទុះ (km) (khtuh), ទឹករងៃ (tɨk rɔngɨy)
• Konkani: पू (pū)
• Korean: 고름 (ko) (goreum)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: ириң (ky) (iriŋ)
• Ladin: mercia f
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• Lao: ຫນອງ (nǭng), ບຸບໂພ (bup phō)
• Latin: pūs n
• Latvian: strutas (lv) f pl
• Low German: Etter m
• Luxembourgish: Eeter m
• Macedonian: гној m (gnoj)
• Malay: nanah
• Maltese: materja
• Maori: ero, tarawai
• Mongolian: идээ бээр (idee beer)
• Navajo: his
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: pouôrrituthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: puss (no) m or n, verk (no) m

  Nynorsk: puss m or n, verk m

• Old Norse: vágr m
• Oriya: ପୂଯ (or) (puja)
• Persian: چرک (fa) (čerk), استیم (fa) (estim)
• Polish: ropa (pl) f
• Portuguese: pus (pt) m
• Quechua: giya, isgoi, pogro
• Romanian: puroi (ro) n
• Russian: гной (ru) m (gnoj)
• Sanskrit: पूय (sa) m or n (pūya)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гно̑ј m

  Roman: gnȏj (sh) m

• Slovak: hnis (sk) m
• Slovene: gnoj (sl) m
• Spanish: pus (es) m
• Swahili: usaha (sw)
• Swedish: var (sv) n
• Tajik: чирк (tg) (čirk)
• Tatar: эрен (tt) (eren)
• Telugu: చీము (te) (cīmu), పూయము (te) (pūyamu)
• Thai: หนอง (th) (nɔ̌ɔng)
• Tibetan: རྣག (rnag)
• Turkish: cerahat (tr), iltihap (tr), irin (tr)
• Turkmen: iriň, çylpyk
• Ukrainian: гній m (hnij)
• Uyghur: يىرىڭ (yiring)
• Uzbek: yiring (uz)
• Vietnamese: mủ (vi)
• Walloon: matire (wa) f, pus (wa) m
• Welsh: madredd m, crawn m
• Westrobothnian: ,

Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present puss, present participle es, simple past and past participle pussed)

1. (rare) To emit pus.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

Anagrams

• 'sup, PSU, SUP, Sup., UPS, USP, psu, sup, sup., ups

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Albanian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m

1. well

Synonyms

• ubël

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpus]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pūs (early 19th century), meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

Etymology 2

From , from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Compare Occitan pus, French plus, Italian più.

Adverb

pus

1. (archaic) more
2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)

   no en vull pus

   I don't want more of it

Etymology 3

From , from Latin post.

Conjunction

pus

1. after

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

1. genitive plural of pusa

Anagrams

• sup

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, put, pût

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pus, meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

Etymology 2

See pouvoir

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular past historic of pouvoir
2. second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Etymology 3

See paître

Verb

pus

1. (extremely rare) masculine plural past participle of paître

Further reading

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

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/

Noun

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. (anatomy) snout

Declension

Declension of pus

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative pus pusa Vocative a phuis a phusa Genitive puis pus Dative pus pusa

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an pus na pusa Genitive an phuis na bpus Dative leis an bpus don phus leis na pusa

Alternative declension

Declension of pus

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative pus pusanna Vocative a phuis a phusanna Genitive puis pusanna Dative pus pusanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an pus na pusanna Genitive an phuis na bpusanna Dative leis an bpus don phus leis na pusanna

Synonyms

• (snout): cab m, glomhar m, gulba f, smaois f, smuilc f, smúrlach f, smut m, soc m, srubh f

Derived terms

• pusach (“pouting, in a huff; whimpering, ready to cry”, adjective)
• pusaire m, pusaí m, pusaíoch m (“sulky person; blubberer, whimperer”)
• puslach m (“muzzle”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pus	phus	bpus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 bus (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

Related terms

• mucopus
• pio-
• purulento
• purulenza
• pustola

 

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pūs, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-.

Cognate with Sanskrit पूयति (pū́yati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek πῦον (pûon, “discharge from a sore”), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”), English foul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puːs/, [puːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pus/, [pus]

Noun

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūs	pūra
Genitive	pūris	pūrum
Dative	pūrī	pūribus
Accusative	pūs	pūra
Ablative	pūre	pūribus
Vocative	pūs	pūra

Derived terms

• pūrulentus
• suppūrō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: pronjiu, proanji
• Catalan: pus
• English: pus
• French: pus
• Italian: pus, purino
• Portuguese: pus
• Romanian: puroi
• Spanish: pus

References

• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

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Miskito

Noun

pus

1. cat

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Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Adverb

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

Etymology 2

Verb

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)

1. (informal) cat

Synonyms

• katt
• pusekatt, kattepus

References

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

1. more
   • 19^th Century, Joseph Roumanille, Poésies diverses recueillies par Joseph Roumanille:

     Mai iéu siéu pus urous qu'un rèi !

     But I am happier than a king!

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pūs, from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot, stink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/
• Hyphenation: pus

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuʃ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpu(j)s/

Verb

pus

1. • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 234:

     Não pus nada no suco!

     I didn't put anything in the juice!

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Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of pune. Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse, or from a hypothetical earlier form *post, from Latin postus, syncopated form of positus (compare also adăpost, where this was preserved).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pus]

Participle

pus

1. past participle of pune

Declension

Declension of pus

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	pus		pusă	puși	puse
	definite	pusul		pusa	pușii	pusele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	pus		puse	puși	puse
	definite	pusului		pusei	pușilor	puselor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pūs.

Noun

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic bus, from Proto-Turkic [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pus/

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	pus
Definite accusative	pusu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pus	puslar
Definite accusative	pusu	pusları
Dative	pusa	puslara
Locative	pusta	puslarda
Ablative	pustan	puslardan
Genitive	pusun	pusların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular pusum puslarım 2nd singular pusun pusların 3rd singular pusu pusları 1st plural pusumuz puslarımız 2nd plural pusunuz puslarınız 3rd plural pusları pusları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumu puslarımı 2nd singular pusunu puslarını 3rd singular pusunu puslarını 1st plural pusumuzu puslarımızı 2nd plural pusunuzu puslarınızı 3rd plural puslarını puslarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular pusuma puslarıma 2nd singular pusuna puslarına 3rd singular pusuna puslarına 1st plural pusumuza puslarımıza 2nd plural pusunuza puslarınıza 3rd plural puslarına puslarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumda puslarımda 2nd singular pusunda puslarında 3rd singular pusunda puslarında 1st plural pusumuzda puslarımızda 2nd plural pusunuzda puslarınızda 3rd plural puslarında puslarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular pusumdan puslarımdan 2nd singular pusundan puslarından 3rd singular pusundan puslarından 1st plural pusumuzdan puslarımızdan 2nd plural pusunuzdan puslarınızdan 3rd plural puslarından puslarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular pusumun puslarımın 2nd singular pusunun puslarının 3rd singular pusunun puslarının 1st plural pusumuzun puslarımızın 2nd plural pusunuzun puslarınızın 3rd plural puslarının puslarının

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Tzotzil

FWOTD – 19 January 2017

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /pʰus/

Noun

pus

1. steam bath

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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Walloon

Etymology

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *plē-, *pelu- (“many”).

Adverb

pus

1. more