puce
See also: pucé, puče, pūce, pūcē, and pucē
English
Etymology
From French couleur puce (“flea-colored”), from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pjuːs/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)
- A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- puce:
- dark puce:
- 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
colour
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Adjective
puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest)
- Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
Descendants
- → Welsh: piws
Translations
colour
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See also
- Appendix:Colors
French
Etymology
From Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, singular accusative of pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pys/
audio (file) - Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses
Noun
puce f (plural puces)
- flea
- chip (electronics), silicon chip
- (typography) bullet
- (endearing) sweetie
Derived terms
- excité comme une puce
- marché aux puces
- mettre la puce à l'oreille
- sac à puces
- saut de puce
- secouer les puces
Verb
puce
- inflection of pucer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “puce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Diminutive form of pȕto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pût͡se/
- Hyphenation: pu‧ce
Noun
pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)
- button
Declension
Declension of puce
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | pȕce | pucèta |
genitive | pȕceta | pucétā |
dative | pȕcetu | pucètima |
accusative | pȕce | pucèta |
vocative | pȕce | pucèta |
locative | pȕcetu | pucètima |
instrumental | pȕcetom | pucètima |
Further reading
- “puce” in Hrvatski jezični portal
- Skok, Petar (1972) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume II, Zagreb: JAZU, page 65
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
puce (Cyrillic spelling пуце)
- inflection of puca:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural