purus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *pūros, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”) (whence also Latin putus, Latin pius). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpuː.rus] === Adjective === pūrus (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum, comparative pūrior, superlative pūrissimus, adverb pūrē or pūriter); first/second-declension adjective clear, limpid Synonyms: putus, absolūtus Antonyms: incestus, sordidus, impurus clean; pure Synonym: līmpidus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Emilian: pûr Italian: puro Old French: purFrench: pur→ Romanian: purNorman: pur→ Middle Dutch: puurDutch: puurNegerhollands: pi → Middle English: pure, pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyreScots: puir, pureEnglish: pure→ Cornish: pur Old Occitan: Catalan: pur Occitan: pur Old Galician-Portuguese: puro Galician: puro Portuguese: puro Old Spanish: puro Spanish: puro→ English: puro→ Greek: πούρο (poúro)→ Turkish: puro Romansh: pur, pür Sicilian: puru → Dutch: puur → German: pur → Proto-Brythonic: *pʉr Welsh: pur → Swedish: pur === References === === Further reading === “purus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “purus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "purus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “purus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Latvian == === Noun === purus m (dialectal) accusative plural of purs