different between puce vs pucel

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

pucel (plural pucels)

1. Obsolete form of pucelle.

Anagrams

• culpe, cupel, pecul

Old English

Etymology

Diminutive of p?ca (“devil, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *p?kô (“goblin, imp”), equivalent to p?ca +? -el. Cognate with Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”). More at puck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pu?.kel/

Noun

p?cel m

1. a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit

Declension

Related terms

• p?ca

Descendants

• Middle English: *poukel (found in names and compounds)
  • English: puckle

Old French

Etymology

Masculine form derived from the feminine pucele.

Noun

pucel m (oblique plural puceaus or puceax or puciaus or puciax or pucels, nominative singular puceaus or puceax or puciaus or puciax or pucels, nominative plural pucel)

1. young, unmarried man
2. (by extension) virgin (male person who has ever had sexual relations)

Declension

Descendants

• French: puceau