different between puce vs muce

English

Etymology

From French couleur puce (“flea-colored”), from Latin p?lex (“flea”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?s

Noun

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
   • 1881, Alvin Wood Chase, Dr. Chase's Recipes Or, Information for Everybody (page 596)

     For blacks, browns, puces, and violets, the acetate or tartrate of iron must be employed.

Translations

Adjective

puce (comparative more puce, superlative most puce)

1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Descendants

• ? Welsh: piws

French

Etymology

From Old French puce, pulce, from Latin p?licem, singular accusative of p?lex, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pys/
• Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

Noun

puce f (plural puces)

1. flea
2. chip (electronics), silicon chip
3. (typography) bullet
4. (endearing) sweetie

Derived terms

• excité comme une puce
• marché aux puces
• mettre la puce à l'oreille
• sac à puces
• saut de puce

Verb

puce

1. first-person singular present indicative of pucer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pucer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
5. second-person singular imperative of pucer

Further reading

• “puce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Diminutive form of p?to.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pût?se/
• Hyphenation: pu?ce

Noun

p?ce n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. button

Declension

References

• Skok, Petar (1972) Etimologijski rje?nik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume II, Zagreb: JAZU, page 65

English

Noun

muce (plural muces)

1. Alternative form of muse (hole through which an animal passes)

Anagrams

• cume

Latin

Noun

m?ce

1. vocative singular of m?cus

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mut?s?/, [?mut?s?]

Noun

muce

1. inflection of muka:
   1. dative/locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Old French

Noun

muce f (oblique plural muces, nominative singular muce, nominative plural muces)

1. hidden store; cache

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (muce)