purus

See also: purūs and púruṣ

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.rus/, [ˈpuːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.rus/, [ˈpuːrus]

Adjective

pūrus (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum, comparative pūrior, superlative pūrissimus, adverb pūrē or pūriter); first/second-declension adjective

1. clear, limpid

   Synonyms: putus, absolūtus

   Antonyms: incestus, sordidus, impurus

2. clean; pure

   Synonym: līmpidus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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

Derived terms

• dēpūrō
• pūrē
• pūrificō
• pūrō

 

Descendants

• 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 Galician-Portuguese: puro
  • Galician: puro
  • Portuguese: puro
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: puro
    • → English: puro
    • → Greek: πούρο (poúro)
    • → Turkish: puro
• Romansch: pur, pür
• Sicilian: puru
• → German: pur
• → Proto-Brythonic: *pʉr
  • Welsh: pur
• → Swedish: pur

References

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
    

Latvian

Noun

purus m

1. (dialectal) accusative plural of purs