purulent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs (“pus”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjʊəɹ(j)ʊlənt/, /ˈpjʊəɹələnt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)

1. (medicine) Consisting of pus.

   Near-synonym: puriform

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:

     It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.

2. (medicine) Leaking or seeping pus.

   Synonyms: pussy, suppurant

   purulent inflammation

   • 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

     Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.

Derived terms

• caseopurulent
• fibrinopurulent
• mucopurulent
• necropurulent
• nonpurulent
• purulent bronchitis
• purulently
• seropurulent

Translations

consisting of pus

Bulgarian: гноен (bg) (gnoen) Catalan: purulent Dutch: etterend (nl), etterig (nl), purulent (nl) Finnish: märkivä (fi), märkäinen French: purulent (fr) Galician: purulento German: eiterig (de), Eiter- (de) Greek: πυώδης (el) (pyódis) Hungarian: gennyes (hu) Indonesian: purulen Irish: angaíoch, angúil Italian: purulento (it) Maori: taemataku Polish: ropny (pl) Portuguese: purulento (pt) Russian: гно́йный (ru) (gnójnyj) Spanish: purulento (es) Ukrainian: гнійни́й (hnijnýj)

leaking or seeping pus

Bulgarian: гноясал (gnojasal) Finnish: märkivä (fi) Greek: πυώδης (el) (pyódis) Hungarian: gennyedző Indonesian: purulen Italian: purulento (it) Maori: taemataku Ukrainian: гнійни́й (hnijnýj)

References

“purulent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūrulentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.ʁy.lɑ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

purulent (feminine purulente, masculine plural purulents, feminine plural purulentes)

1. purulent

Related terms

• pus

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French purulent, from Latin purulentus.

Adjective

purulent m or n (feminine singular purulentă, masculine plural purulenți, feminine and neuter plural purulente)

1. purulent

Declension

Declension of purulent

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	purulent		purulentă		purulenți	purulente
	definite	purulentul		purulenta		purulenții	purulentele
genitive- dative	indefinite	purulent		purulente		purulenți	purulente
	definite	purulentului		purulentei		purulenților	purulentelor