pusus

See also: puŝus

Latin

Etymology

May be a back-formation from pusillus, with analogical vowel un-shortening (see the latter for details), from Proto-Indo-European *put-lo- (“son”). Alternatively, might be connected with puer, paucus and pūpus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”). May be related to *pūttus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpuː.s̬us]

Noun

pūsus m (genitive pūsī, feminine pūsa); second declension

1. a boy, a little boy

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pūsus	pūsī
genitive	pūsī	pūsōrum
dative	pūsō	pūsīs
accusative	pūsum	pūsōs
ablative	pūsō	pūsīs
vocative	pūse	pūsī

Synonyms

• puellus
• puerulus
• puer
• pisinnus, pitinnus

Derived terms

• pusillus
• pūsiō

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “putus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 502

Further reading

• “pusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pusus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• pusus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016