different between pus vs suppurative

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 the Modern Latin supp?r?t?vus.

Adjective

suppurative (comparative more suppurative, superlative most suppurative)

1. (medicine, of a disease or medical condition) causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.

Derived terms

• suppuratively (rare)

Translations

Noun

suppurative (plural suppuratives)

1. A medicine that causes suppuration.

Related terms

• suppuration

French

Adjective

suppurative

1. feminine singular of suppuratif

Italian

Adjective

suppurative

1. feminine plural of suppurativo