pulex

See also: Pulex

Contents

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ψύλλα (psúlla), Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi), Old Armenian լու (lu) and Old English flēah, flēa (English flea).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.leks/, [ˈpuː.ɫɛks]

Noun

pūlex m (genitive pūlicis); third declension

1. flea

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pūlex	pūlicēs
Genitive	pūlicis	pūlicum
Dative	pūlicī	pūlicibus
Accusative	pūlicem	pūlicēs
Ablative	pūlice	pūlicibus
Vocative	pūlex	pūlicēs

Descendants

• Aragonese: pulz
• Aromanian: puric
• Asturian: pulga
• Catalan: puça
• Dalmatian: pulco
• ⇒ Esperanto: pulo
• French: puce
  • → English: puce
• Friulian: pulç, pulč
• Galician: pulga

• Italian: pulce
• Mozarabic: pulč
• Norman: puche
• Occitan: piusa
• Portuguese: pulga
• Romanian: purice
• Romansch: pilesch, pelisch, pelesch, pülesch, pülsch
• Sardinian: puighi, puliche, pulige, pulighe, pulixi
• Sicilian: pùlici, puci, purci
• Spanish: pulga
• Translingual: Pulex
• Venetian: pulç, pulxo, polxe, pulexe, pułega
• Welsh: piws

References

• pulex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pulex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pulex in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray