different between pus vs dejecta

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin p?s, meaning the same.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?s, IPA^(key): /p?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

pus (uncountable)

1. A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria; normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Derived terms

• pussy, pusy
• puss (alternate spelling)

Translations

Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)

1. (rare) To emit pus.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

Anagrams

• 'sup, PSU, SUP, Sup., UPS, UPs, USP, psu, sup, sup., ups

Albanian

Etymology

Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian pu?, Italian pozzo.

Noun

pus m

1. well

Synonyms

• ubël

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pus/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin p?s (early 19th century), meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

Related terms

• purulent

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin pl?s, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-, *pelh?u- (“many”). Compare Occitan pus, French plus, Italian più.

Adverb

pus

1. (archaic) more
2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)

   no en vull pus

   I don't want more of it

Etymology 3

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin post.

Conjunction

pus

1. after

References

Further reading

• “pus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pus]
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

Anagrams

• sup

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin p?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s/
• Hyphenation: pus
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

pus n or m (uncountable)

1. pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)

   Synonym: etter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, put, pût

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle French from Latin pus, meaning the same.

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. pus

Etymology 2

See pouvoir

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular past historic of pouvoir
2. second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

Etymology 3

See paître

Verb

pus

1. (extremely rare) masculine plural past participle of paître

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s?/

Noun

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. (anatomy) snout

Declension

Alternative declension

Synonyms

• (snout): cab m, glomhar m, gulba f, smaois f, smuilc f, smúrlach f, smut m, soc m, srubh f

Derived terms

• pusach (“pouting, in a huff; whimpering, ready to cry”, adjective)
• pusaire m, pusaí m, pusaíoch m (“sulky person; blubberer, whimperer”)
• puslach m (“muzzle”)

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “4 bus (‘lip’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “pus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

• "pus" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin p?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pus/

Noun

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

Related terms

Further reading

• pus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *puos, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-.

Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (púvas), Ancient Greek ???? (p?ós), ???? (púth?, “to rot”), Gothic ???????????????? (fuls, “foul”), Old English f?l (“foul”), English foul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pu?s/, [pu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pus/, [pus]

Noun

p?s n (genitive p?ris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• pus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lushootseed

Noun

pus

1. Southern Lushootseed form of ??pus.

Miskito

Noun

pus

1. cat

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

Adverb

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)

Noun

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

Etymology 2

Verb

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)

1. (informal) cat

Synonyms

• katt
• pusekatt, kattepus

References

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• pu (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

Adverb

pus

1. more

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin p?s.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pus/
• Hyphenation: pus

Noun

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?pu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?pu(j)s/

Verb

pus

1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of pôr

Romanian

Etymology

Past participle of pune. Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse, or from a hypothetical earlier form *post, from Latin postus, syncopated form of positus (compare also ad?post, where this was preserved).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pus]

Participle

pus

1. past participle of pune

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin p?s.

Noun

pus m or f (plural puses)

1. pus

Turkish

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bus (“steam”). Cognate withTuvan ??? (bus, “steam”),Bashkir ??? (bo?, “steam”),Chuvash ??? (p?s, “steam”),etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pus/

Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

Declension

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /p?us/

Noun

pus

1. steam bath

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Walloon

Etymology

From Latin pl?s, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?-, *pelu- (“many”).

Adverb

pus

1. more

English

Etymology

From Latin dejecta (“things which have been cast away”), neuter plural of dejectus, past participle of dejicio (“I cast away”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??d??k.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??d??k.t?/, /di?d??k.t?/

Noun

dejecta pl (plural only)

1. (medicine, zoology) any liquid or solid waste matter that is emanated, shed or discharged from the body. Dejecta include urine, faeces, sputum, pus, mucus, skin sloughing, lochia; their discharge can be nasal, aural, by expectoration, urethral, vaginal and so on.
2. excrements

   the dejecta of the sick

Translations

References

Latin

Adjective

d?jecta

1. nominative feminine singular of d?jectus
2. nominative neuter plural of d?jectus
3. accusative neuter plural of d?jectus
4. vocative feminine singular of d?jectus
5. vocative neuter plural of d?jectus

Adjective

d?ject?

1. ablative feminine singular of d?jectus