different between pus vs phlegm

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 Middle English flewme, fleume, fleme, from Old French fleume, Middle French flemme (French flegme), and their source, Latin phlegma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (phlégma, “flame; inflammation; clammy humor in the body”), from ??????? (phlégein, “to burn”). Compare phlox, flagrant, flame, bleak (adjective), fulminate. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /fl?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

phlegm (usually uncountable, plural phlegms)

1. (historical) One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus. [from 13th c.]
   • 1993, William Dalrymple, City of Djinns, HarperCollins 1993:

     Each person's unique mixture of these substances determines his temperament: a predominance of blood gives a sanguine temperament; a predominance of phlegm makes one phlegmatic; yellow bile, bilious (or choleric); and black bile, melancholic.

2. Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing. [from 14th c.]
   • 2005, "Endangered Species?" Hannah Beech, Time, 14 Nov 2005:

     "Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like hawking phlegm onto the pavement or picking their noses at business meetings."

4. (historical, chemistry, alchemy) A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution. [from 16th c.]
   • 1812, Humphry Davy, The Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Introduction, Part I. Vol. I, pp. 50-51:

     The attempts made to analyse vegetable substances previous to 1720, merely produced their resolution into the supposed elements of the chemists of those days, namely, salts, Earths, phlegm, and sulphur.

5. Calmness of temperament, composure; also seen negatively, sluggishness, indifference. [from 16th c.]
   • 1942, "Warning to Sweden", Time, 5 Oct 1942:

     But Swedish Nazis also talked of the necessity of saving Sweden from Bolshevism, and with the menacing Berlin radio gnawing in their ears many Swedes lost their Scandinavian phlegm.

Related terms

• phlegmatic

Derived terms

• phlegmish
• phlegmy

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “phlegm”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “phlegm” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.