purus
See also: purūs
Contents
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with putus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
pūrus (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum); first/second declension
InflectionEdit
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Italian: puro
- Old French: pur
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: pur
- Old Portuguese: puro
- Old Spanish:
- Romansch: pur, pür
- Sicilian: puru
- → German: pur
- → Swedish: pur
- → Welsh: pur
- → Westrobothnian: pul
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
- pure, correct language: oratio pura, pura et emendata