pulso

See also: pulsó and pulsò

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pulso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul̪.so]
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

Noun

púlso (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜎ᜔ᜐᜓ)

1. (physiology) pulse
2. (anatomy) wrist

   Synonym: bubutkan

Derived terms

• magpulso
• pulsohan
• pulsohon

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish pulso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/, [ˈpul.so]
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

Noun

pulso

1. pulse

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/

Noun

pulso (accusative singular pulson, plural pulsoj, accusative plural pulsojn)

1. beat

   Synonyms: tempo, takto

2. pulse

   Synonym: korbatado

Derived terms

• ĉefpulso (“downbeat”)

Related terms

• pulsi (“to beat, blink, pulsate, throb”)

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pulsus (“beat; pulse”), from pellō (“I drive; I strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul.s̺ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ulso
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (cardiology, uncountable) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)
2. (cardiology, uncountable) heart rate (number of heart beats per unit of time)
3. pulsation (single beat)
4. (electronics) electric pulse
5. (anatomy) wrist (hand joint)

   Synonym: boneca (obsolete)

Derived terms

• a pulso
• pulseira

Related terms

• impulso
• pulsación
• pulsador
• pulsar

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pulso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pulso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pulso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpul.so/
• Rhymes: -ulso
• Hyphenation: pùl‧so

Verb

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsare

Anagrams

• spulo, spulò

Ladino

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pulso, polso (“pulse”), from Latin pulsus.

Noun

pulso m (Hebrew spelling פולסו)

1. (anatomy) wrist
   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 68:

     Eran fetchas de dos plakas grandes, kuvriendo kaje todo el braso (del kovdo al pulso), tenidas entre eyas por unas kadenikas ke fazian el torno del braso.

     They were made from two big slabs, covering almost the entire arm (from the elbow to the wrist), meeting each other through some necklaces that went around the arm.

Alternative forms

• puso

Derived terms

• del kulo al pulso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsar
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of pulsar

Latin

Alternative forms

• pultō (pre-Classical)

Etymology

Frequentative of pellō (“drive, strike”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊɫ.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpul.so]

Verb

pulsō (present infinitive pulsāre, perfect active pulsāvī, supine pulsātum); first conjugation

1. to push, strike, beat, batter, hammer; knock on; pulsate

   Synonyms: mulcō, feriō, impingō, ī̆cō, afflīgō, caedō, tangō, verberō, accīdō, percutiō, discutiō, pellō, percellō

2. (figuratively) to urge or drive on, impel, move, agitate, disturb, disquiet
3. (figuratively) to accuse, defame; injure, insult

   Synonyms: obloquor, maledīcō, crīminor, arcessō, increpō, castīgō, corripiō, arripiō, accūsō, incūsō, compellō, arguō, īnsultō

4. (figuratively) to remove, put out of the way, drive away; dispel

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pulsō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pulsō		pulsās		pulsat		pulsāmus		pulsātis		pulsant
	imperfect	pulsābam		pulsābās		pulsābat		pulsābāmus		pulsābātis		pulsābant
	future	pulsābō		pulsābis		pulsābit		pulsābimus		pulsābitis		pulsābunt
	perfect	pulsāvī		pulsāvistī		pulsāvit		pulsāvimus		pulsāvistis		pulsāvērunt, pulsāvēre
	pluperfect	pulsāveram		pulsāverās		pulsāverat		pulsāverāmus		pulsāverātis		pulsāverant
	future perfect	pulsāverō		pulsāveris		pulsāverit		pulsāverimus		pulsāveritis		pulsāverint
passive	present	pulsor		pulsāris, pulsāre		pulsātur		pulsāmur		pulsāminī		pulsantur
	imperfect	pulsābar		pulsābāris, pulsābāre		pulsābātur		pulsābāmur		pulsābāminī		pulsābantur
	future	pulsābor		pulsāberis, pulsābere		pulsābitur		pulsābimur		pulsābiminī		pulsābuntur
	perfect	pulsātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	pulsātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	pulsātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pulsem		pulsēs		pulset		pulsēmus		pulsētis		pulsent
	imperfect	pulsārem		pulsārēs		pulsāret		pulsārēmus		pulsārētis		pulsārent
	perfect	pulsāverim		pulsāverīs		pulsāverit		pulsāverīmus		pulsāverītis		pulsāverint
	pluperfect	pulsāvissem		pulsāvissēs		pulsāvisset		pulsāvissēmus		pulsāvissētis		pulsāvissent
passive	present	pulser		pulsēris, pulsēre		pulsētur		pulsēmur		pulsēminī		pulsentur
	imperfect	pulsārer		pulsārēris, pulsārēre		pulsārētur		pulsārēmur		pulsārēminī		pulsārentur
	perfect	pulsātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	pulsātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		pulsā		—		—		pulsāte		—
	future	—		pulsātō		pulsātō		—		pulsātōte		pulsantō
passive	present	—		pulsāre		—		—		pulsāminī		—
	future	—		pulsātor		pulsātor		—		—		pulsantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		pulsāre			pulsārī, pulsārier1			pulsāns			—
future		pulsātūrum esse			pulsātum īrī			pulsātūrus			pulsandus
perfect		pulsāvisse			pulsātum esse			—			pulsātus
future perfect		—			pulsātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		pulsātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		pulsandī		pulsandō		pulsandum		pulsandō		pulsātum		pulsātū

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Participle

pulsō

1. masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of pulsus

Derived terms

• circumpulsō
• expulsō
• impulsō
• pede tellūrem pulsō
• prōpulsō
• pulsābulum
• pulsātiō
• pulsātor
• repulsō

Related terms

• pellō
• pulsiō
• pulsuōsus
• pulsus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pulsare
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: pulsâ
  • Piedmontese: possé
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: poulser
    • Middle French: pousser
      • → English: push
        • → Papiamentu: pusha
      • French: pousser
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: puxar
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: puxar
    • Galician: puxar
    • Portuguese: puxar (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: puxar
    • Ladino: pujar
    • Spanish: pujar
• Borrowings:
  • → Asturian: pulsar
  • → French: pulser
  • → Galician: pulsar
  • → Piedmontese: pulsé
  • → Portuguese: pulsar
  • → Romanian: pulsa
  • → Spanish: pulsar

References

• “pulso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pulso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare
    

Anagrams

• polus

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• polso

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pulsus.

Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (physiology) pulse

Descendants

• Ladino: pulso, puso, פולסו, פוסו
• Spanish: pulso
  • → Chavacano: pulso
  • → Tagalog: pulso

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “pulso”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 416

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuw.su/ [ˈpuʊ̯.su]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuw.su/ [ˈpuʊ̯.su]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuw.so/ [ˈpuʊ̯.so]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.su/ [ˈpuɫ.su]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ulsu, (Brazil) -uwsu
• Hyphenation: pul‧so

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pulsus (“beat; pulse”), from pellō (“to drive; to strike”).

Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (cardiology, uncountable) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)

   Synonym: pulsação

2. (cardiology, uncountable) heart rate (number of heart beats per unit of time)
3. pulsation (single beat)

   Synonyms: batida, pulsação

4. (anatomy) wrist (hand joint)

   Synonym: punho

5. (electronics) electric pulse

Derived terms

• pulseira

Related terms

• impulso
• pulsação
• pulsador
• pulsante
• pulsar
• pulsátil
• pulsativo
• pulsear
• pulsimétrico
• pulsímetro
• pulsional
• pulsógrafo
• pulsómetro
• pulsor

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsar

Further reading

• “pulso”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “pulso”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “pulso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “pulso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “pulso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pulso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul.so]

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• Rhymes: -ulso
• Syllabification: pul‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pulso, polso (“pulse”), from Latin pulsus.

Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)

1. (physiology) pulse
2. arm-wrestle

   Synonym: pulseada

   • 2021 May 19, Laura J. Varo, ““Es la ‘marcha negra’, venimos de todo Marruecos””, in El País‎^[3]:

     Más de 8.000 personas han accedido a la ciudad, a nado o a pie, sorteando las rocas, a través de los espigones de Benzú, al norte, y del Tarajal, al sur, como consecuencia del pulso diplomático que ha echado Rabat a Madrid.

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3. (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) aim

   Synonym: puntería

Derived terms

• a pulso
• echar un pulso
• pulsera
• pulsudo

Related terms

• impulso
• pulsar

Descendants

• → Chavacano: pulso
• → Tagalog: pulso

Etymology 2

Verb

pulso

1. first-person singular present indicative of pulsar

Further reading

• “pulso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “pulso”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pulso.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul.so], /pulˈso/ [pʊlˈso]
• Rhymes: -ulso, -o
• Syllabification: pul‧so

Noun

pulso or pulsó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎ᜔ᜐᜓ)

1. (physiology) pulse

   Synonym: pintig

2. (anatomy) wrist
3. feeling or opinion of a group of people

Derived terms

• pulsuhan

Anagrams

• pulos