puce

== English == === Etymology === From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pjuːs/ (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈpjʉs/ Rhymes: -uːs === Noun === puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces) A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest) Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish. ==== Descendants ==== → Welsh: piws ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Appendix:Colors == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, the accusative form of pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plus- (“flea”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pys/ Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses === Noun === puce f (plural puces) flea chip (electronics), silicon chip (typography) bullet (endearing) sweetie (used to address a young girl, or a woman one is romantically involved with) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: puce → Welsh: piws === 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 === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pǫtьce, a deminutive form of Proto-Slavic *pǫto. First attested in the 16th century. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /pût͡se/ Hyphenation: pu‧ce ==== Noun ==== pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це) button ===== Declension ===== ==== References ==== ==== 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) inflection of puca: genitive singular nominative/accusative/vocative plural