pulex
See also: Pulex
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ψύλλα (psúlla), Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi), Old Armenian լու (lu) and Old English flēah, flēa (English flea).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.leks/, [ˈpuːɫ̪ɛks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.leks/, [ˈpuːleks]
Noun
pūlex m (genitive pūlicis); third declension
- flea
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūlex | pūlicēs |
Genitive | pūlicis | pūlicum |
Dative | pūlicī | pūlicibus |
Accusative | pūlicem | pūlicēs |
Ablative | pūlice | pūlicibus |
Vocative | pūlex | pūlicēs |
Derived terms
- *pūlica
- *pūlicō
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: puric
- Romanian: purice
- Dalmatian:
- pulco
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pulce
- Central Italian: pulce, purge, purce ⇒ purgia
- Tuscan: puce, pulce, puice
- ⇒ Neapolitan: pócia, polàcia
- Sicilian: pùlici, puci, purci
- Italian: pulce
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: prûxa, purxa
- Lombard: pùles, pùres
- → Franco-Provençal: pulas (Valdôtain)
- → Piedmontese: pùles, pùres
- Piedmontese: purs, puls, prus
- ⇒ Romagnol: pólxa
- Friulian: pulç, pulč
- Romansch: pilesch, pelisch, pelesch, pülesch, pülsch
- Venetian: pulç, pulxo, polxe, pulexe
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: puge
- Dauphinois: pusi
- Forézien: piusi, pusi ⇒ piòsa
- Lyonnais: pusi
- Valdôtain: pôise, puougi, piugi ⇒ puja, puija
- Old French: puce, puche
- French: puce
- → English: puce
- → Welsh: piws
- → English: puce
- Norman: puche
- French: puce
- Franco-Provençal: puge
- Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: pulç ⇒ pulça
- Catalan: puça, pulça
- Gascon: puç, piutz, puse
- Occitan:
- Languedocien: piuse
- Limousin: piòse
- Old Catalan: pulç ⇒ pulça
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: pulz, pulce
- Ribagorçan: ⇒ pulça
- Aragonese: pulz, pulce
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: puighi, puliche, pulige, pulighe, pulixi
- Borrowings:
- ⇒ Esperanto: pulo
- ⇒ Translingual: Pulex
References
- “pulex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pulex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “pulex”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray