purus

See also: purūs

LatinEdit

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

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

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	pūrus	pūra	pūrum	pūrī	pūrae	pūra
Genitive	pūrī	pūrae	pūrī	pūrōrum	pūrārum	pūrōrum
Dative	pūrō	pūrae	pūrō	pūrīs
Accusative	pūrum	pūram	pūrum	pūrōs	pūrās	pūra
Ablative	pūrō	pūrā	pūrō	pūrīs
Vocative	pūre	pūra	pūrum	pūrī	pūrae	pūra

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
→ Westrobothnian: pul

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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