puce

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

English

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puce

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjuːs/

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• (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.

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   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

Afrikaans: persbruin Czech: tmavě fialová Finnish: punaisenruskea Greek: ερυθρόμαυρο n (erythrómavro) Japanese: 暗赤色 (あんせきしょく, ansekishoku) Norwegian: dypt rødt n, ildrødt n, loppefarge m, mørkt purpurrødt n, rødbrunt n Portuguese: cor de pulga (pt) f Spanish: granate (es) (dark puce) Welsh: gwineugoch m, glasgoch m, piws m

Adjective

puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest)

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

Descendants

• → Welsh: piws

Translations

colour

Czech: tmavě fialový Finnish: punaisenruskea Greek: ερυθρόμαυρος m (erythrómavros) Irish: ruachorcra Japanese: 暗赤色の (あんせきしょくの, ansekishoku no) Norwegian: dyp rød, ildrød, loppefarget, mørk purpurrød, rødbrun Welsh: gwineugoch, glasgoch, piws

See also

• Appendix:Colors

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pys/

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• Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

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

• excité comme une puce
• marché aux puces
• mettre la puce à l'oreille
• puces savantes
• sac à puces
• saut de puce
• secouer les puces

Descendants

• → English: puce
  • → Welsh: piws

Verb

puce

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

Further reading

• “puce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.