pure
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊə/, /ˈpjɔː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpjʊɹ/, /ˈpjoɹ/, /ˈpjɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpjʉːə/, /ˈpjoː/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈpjuː(ə)ɹ/, /ˈpɪu̯(ə)ɹ/
- (Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpɪu̯ə(ɹ)/
- (cure–nurse merger, rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈpjɝ/
- (cure–nurse merger, non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈpjɜː/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
Adjective edit
pure (comparative purer or more pure, superlative purest or most pure)
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (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.
- 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.
- Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
- 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.
- That idea is pure madness!
- (of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- 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- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.
- (Bermuda, slang) A lot of.
- 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda's first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun[1], archived from the original on 2022-12-12:
- 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...
Synonyms edit
- (free of flaws): see Thesaurus:pure
- (free of foreign material): see Thesaurus:raw
- (free of immoral behavior): innocent
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "free of flaws"): dirty, flawed, impure
- (antonym(s) of "free of foreign material"): contaminated, impure
- (antonym(s) of "free of immoral behavior"): corrupt, guilty, sinful
- (antonym(s) of "done for its own sake"): applied
Derived terms edit
- as pure as the driven snow
- enantiopure
- fullblood
- hyperpure
- immunopure
- nanopure
- nonpure
- pure air
- pure and simple
- pure as driven snow
- pure as the driven snow
- pureblood
- pureblooded
- pure blue
- purebred
- pure-bred
- purebreed
- pure collector
- pure country
- pure customer
- pure democracy
- pure ego
- pure endowment
- pure evil
- pure finder
- pure gatherer
- pure good
- pure good
- pure-hearted
- pure-impure
- pure laine
- pure land
- pure mathematics
- pure name
- pureness
- pure O
- pureplay
- pure-play
- pure quill
- pure science
- pure sex
- pure virtual function
- pure virtual method
- purey
- radiopure
- repure
- simon-pure
- stereopure
- superpure
- suprapure
- ultrapure
- ultra-pure
- unpure
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Welsh: piwr
Translations edit
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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
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.
- “pure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →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
Inflection of pure | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte 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
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Noun edit
pure c (singular definite pureen, plural indefinite pureer)
Inflection edit
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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pure
Esperanto edit
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pure
Finnish edit
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pure
- inflection of purra:
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pure
- inflection of pur:
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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pure
Etymology 2 edit
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 likes
- Parla pure (with imperative) ― Speak if you like
- Lei parli pure (with formal subjunctive-imperative) ― Speak if you like
Conjunction edit
pure
References edit
- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951; headword pure
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From pūrus (“clean; pure”) and -e (“-ly, -ily”).
Adverb edit
pūrē (comparative pūrius, superlative pūrissimē)
Synonyms edit
- (correctly): ēmendātē
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pūre
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[2], 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 2018-04-02.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural pureer, definite plural pureene)
- alternative spelling of puré
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Etymology 1 edit
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pure m (definite singular pureen, indefinite plural purear, definite plural pureane)
- alternative spelling of puré
Etymology 2 edit
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pure
Rapa Nui edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Polynesian *pule.
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pure
Scots edit
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pure (comparative mair pure, superlative maist pure)
- The old man was absolutely furious!
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pure (n class, plural pure)
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