puce

See also: pucé, puče, pūce, pūcē, and pucē

English

Etymology

From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pjuːs/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈpjʉs/
  • Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

  1. 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.
    • 2003, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, page 149:
      “Laws can be changed,” said Fudge savagely. “Of course they can,” said Dumbledore, inclining his head. “And you certainly seem to be making many changes, Cornelius. Why, in the few short weeks since I was asked to leave the Wizengamot, it has already become the practice to hold a full criminal trial to deal with a simple matter of underage magic!” A few of the wizards above them shifted uncomfortably in their seats. Fudge turned a slightly deeper shade of puce. The toadlike witch on the right, however, merely glanced at Dumbledore, her face quite expressionless.

Translations

Adjective

puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest)

  1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

Descendants

  • → Welsh: piws

Translations

See also

  • Appendix:Colors

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, the accusative form of pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plus- (“flea”).

Noun

puce f (plural puces)

  1. flea
  2. chip (electronics), silicon chip
  3. (typography) bullet
  4. (endearing) sweetie (used to address a young girl, or a woman one is romantically involved with)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Guianese Creole: pis
  • Mauritian Creole: pis
  • → English: puce

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

puce

  1. inflection of pucer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫtьce, a deminutive form of Proto-Slavic *pǫto. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pût͡se/
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ce

Noun

pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

  1. 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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk (2016–2021), “puce”, in Matasović, Ranko, editor, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume [], Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 253

Further reading

  • “puce”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
  • Skok, Petar (1972), “puce”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (K – poni¹), Zagreb: JAZU, page 65

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

puce (Cyrillic spelling пуце)

  1. inflection of puca:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
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