pur
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
pur (plural purs)
- Dated form of purr (low murmuring sound as of a cat)
- 1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
- The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.
- 1895, Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
VerbEdit
pur (third-person singular simple present purs, present participle purring, simple past and past participle purred)
- Dated form of purr
- a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River
- And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
- 1840, The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
- It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur.
- a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River
AnagramsEdit
Alemannic GermanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German būre, gibūre, from Old High German gibūro, from būr (“peasant”). Cognate with German Bauer, Dutch buur, English bower.
NounEdit
pur m
ReferencesEdit
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Catalan pur, from Latin pūrus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pur (feminine pura, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “pur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “pur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
CornishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle English pur (“pure”), from Old French pur (“pure”)[1].
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pur
MutationEdit
Cornish consonant mutation | |||||
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | mixed | mixed after 'th |
pur | bur | fur | unchanged | unchanged | unchanged |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Universal Dictionary 1986
DalmatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin pāret, third person singular present active indicative of pareō.
VerbEdit
pur
- to appear
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pur (feminine pure, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “pur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Middle High German pūr (14th c.), from Latin pūrus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pur (strong nominative masculine singular purer, comparative purer, superlative am pursten)
- pure, mere, sheer (nothing other than)
- pure (not mixed with another ingredient)
- Synonyms: rein, unverdünnt, unvermischt
- Er trinkt puren Wodka.
- He drinks pure vodka.
- Er trinkt Wodka pur.
- He drinks vodka straight.
- (rare) pure (not polluted or sullied)
- Synonyms: rein, sauber, schadstofffrei, unverdorben
Usage notesEdit
- As a more flexible equivalent for English pure use the adjective rein, especially in moral and other figurative senses.
- Due to the semantic constraints, the compared forms, especially the comparative purer, are infrequent.
- Pur may at times be postpositioned, especially when the noun has no article or determiner with it. This use has been generalised from the context of food and drink, where it is also found with some other adjectives (e.g. Kaffee schwarz for schwarzer Kaffee).
DeclensionEdit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist pur | sie ist pur | es ist pur | sie sind pur | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | purer | pure | pures | pure |
genitive | puren | purer | puren | purer | |
dative | purem | purer | purem | puren | |
accusative | puren | pure | pures | pure | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der pure | die pure | das pure | die puren |
genitive | des puren | der puren | des puren | der puren | |
dative | dem puren | der puren | dem puren | den puren | |
accusative | den puren | die pure | das pure | die puren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein purer | eine pure | ein pures | (keine) puren |
genitive | eines puren | einer puren | eines puren | (keiner) puren | |
dative | einem puren | einer puren | einem puren | (keinen) puren | |
accusative | einen puren | eine pure | ein pures | (keine) puren |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist purer | sie ist purer | es ist purer | sie sind purer | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | purerer | purere | pureres | purere |
genitive | pureren | purerer | pureren | purerer | |
dative | purerem | purerer | purerem | pureren | |
accusative | pureren | purere | pureres | purere | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der purere | die purere | das purere | die pureren |
genitive | des pureren | der pureren | des pureren | der pureren | |
dative | dem pureren | der pureren | dem pureren | den pureren | |
accusative | den pureren | die purere | das purere | die pureren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein purerer | eine purere | ein pureres | (keine) pureren |
genitive | eines pureren | einer pureren | eines pureren | (keiner) pureren | |
dative | einem pureren | einer pureren | einem pureren | (keinen) pureren | |
accusative | einen pureren | eine purere | ein pureres | (keine) pureren |
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist am pursten | sie ist am pursten | es ist am pursten | sie sind am pursten | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | purster | purste | purstes | purste |
genitive | pursten | purster | pursten | purster | |
dative | purstem | purster | purstem | pursten | |
accusative | pursten | purste | purstes | purste | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der purste | die purste | das purste | die pursten |
genitive | des pursten | der pursten | des pursten | der pursten | |
dative | dem pursten | der pursten | dem pursten | den pursten | |
accusative | den pursten | die purste | das purste | die pursten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein purster | eine purste | ein purstes | (keine) pursten |
genitive | eines pursten | einer pursten | eines pursten | (keiner) pursten | |
dative | einem pursten | einer pursten | einem pursten | (keinen) pursten | |
accusative | einen pursten | eine purste | ein purstes | (keine) pursten |
Further readingEdit
InterlinguaEdit
AdjectiveEdit
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
pur (apocopated)
ConjunctionEdit
pur (apocopated)
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.
AdjectiveEdit
pur m
Derived termsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
pur m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pure)
DeclensionEdit
DescendantsEdit
- French: pur
- → Romanian: pur
- Norman: pur
- → Middle English: pure, pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyre
Etymology 2Edit
See por
PrepositionEdit
pur
- Alternative form of por
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin pūrus, French pur.
AdjectiveEdit
pur m or n (feminine singular pură, masculine plural puri, feminine and neuter plural pure)
DeclensionEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Variant of por. Probably from Latin porrum.
NounEdit
pur m (plural puri)
DeclensionEdit
RomanschEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Alternative formsEdit
- (Puter, Vallader) pür
AdjectiveEdit
pur m (feminine singular pura, masculine plural purs, feminine plural puras) (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran)
SynonymsEdit
- (Sutsilvan) spir
Etymology 2Edit
Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Bauer, Dutch boer.
NounEdit
pur m (plural purs) (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter)
Alternative formsEdit
See alsoEdit
Chess pieces in Romansch · figuras da schah (layout · text) | |||||
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retg | dama | tur | currider | chaval | pur |
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ʉːr
AdjectiveEdit
pur (not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of pur | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | pur | — | — |
Neuter singular | purt | — | — |
Plural | pura | — | — |
Masculine plural3 | pure | — | — |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | pure | — | — |
All | pura | — | — |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- pur in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Welsh pur, from Proto-Brythonic *pʉr, from Latin pūrus.
PronunciationEdit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /pɨːr/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /piːr/
- Rhymes: -ɨːr
AdjectiveEdit
pur (feminine singular pur, plural purion, equative pured, comparative purach, superlative puraf)
MutationEdit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
pur | bur | mhur | phur |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |