purus

See also: purūs

Contents

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with putus.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.rus/, [ˈpuː.rʊs]

AdjectiveEdit

pūrus (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum); first/second declension

1. clear, limpid
2. clean; pure

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	pūrus	pūra	pūrum		pūrī	pūrae	pūra
genitive	pūrī	pūrae	pūrī		pūrōrum	pūrārum	pūrōrum
dative	pūrō		pūrō		pūrīs
accusative	pūrum	pūram	pūrum		pūrōs	pūrās	pūra
ablative	pūrō	pūrā	pūrō		pūrīs
vocative	pūre	pūra	pūrum		pūrī	pūrae	pūra

SynonymsEdit

• putus

Derived termsEdit

• pūrē
• pūrō

DescendantsEdit

• Italian: puro
• Old French: pur
  • French: pur
    • → Romanian: pur
  • Norman: pur
  • → Middle English: pure, pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyre
    • Scots: puir, pure
    • English: pure
    • → Cornish: pur
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: pur
• Old Portuguese: puro
  • Galician: puro
  • Portuguese: puro
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: puro
    • → English: puro
    • → Greek: πούρο (poúro)
    • → Turkish: puro
• Romansch: pur, pür
• Sicilian: puru
• → German: pur
• → Swedish: pur
• → Welsh: pur

ReferencesEdit

• purus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• purus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• purus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• purus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • pure, correct language: oratio pura, pura et emendata
    
  • incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis
    
  • to assume the toga virilis: togam virilem (puram) sumere
    

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LatvianEdit

NounEdit

purus m

1. (dialectal form) accusative plural form of purs