pus

pus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pashto.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pashto terms

• puss (rarer spelling)

From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense.

• enPR: pŭs, (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /pʌs/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /pʊs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs
• Homophone: puss (without the foot-strut split)

pus (usually uncountable, plural pura)

2. (medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

   Pus was seeping out of the wound.

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)

1. (rare) To emit pus.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

• 'sup, PSU, SUP, Sup., UPS, UPs, USP, psu, sup, sup., ups

Probably borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin puteum. Compare Romanian puț, Italian pozzo.

pus m (plural puse, definite pusi, definite plural puset)

1. well (source of water)

• ubël

• “pus”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

pus

1. cat

   Synonym: tusa

   Lebe bai beta kasi makang pus dar mau kas makang orang pamalas.

   I would rather give food to the cat than to give food to the lazy.

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998), Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[2], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/ [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: pus

pus

1. (Western, dialectal) alternative form of pos

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpus]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs (early 19th century), meaning the same.^[1]

pus m (uncountable)

1. pus

• purulent

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Compare Occitan pus, French plus.

pus

1. (archaic) more
2. (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)

   Synonym: més

   no en vull pus

   I don't want (any) more of it

• Found in expressions like despús-ahir o despús-demà

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin post.

pus

1. after

• “pus”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pus”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us

pus

1. genitive plural of pusa

• sup

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

• IPA^(key): /pʏs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

pus n or m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)

   Synonym: etter

• → Indonesian: pus
• → Papiamentu: pus

See pusu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/, [ˈpus̠]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification^(key): pus
• Hyphenation^(key): pus

pus (informal)

1. mwah, smooch

• pus kii

• “pus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Middle French pus (16th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”).

• IPA^(key): /py/

  • Audio (France); “du pus”:

    (file)

  • Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

    (file)

  • Audio (France (Vosges)):

    (file)

  • Homophones: pu, pue, puent, pues, put, pût
• IPA^(key): /pys/ (variant until earlier 20th c., now obsolete)
  • Homophones: puce, puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

pus m (invariable)

1. pus (bodily fluid)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /py/
• Homophones: pu, pue, puent, pues, put, pût

pus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

pus m pl

1. (very rare) masculine plural of pu

• IPA^(key): /py/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [pys], [py]

pus

1. (Louisiana) syncopic form of plus (“more; no more, no longer”)

• “pus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/ [ˈpus̺]
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation: pus

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

pus f (invariable)

1. pus

   Synonyms: materia, apostema

From Old Galician-Portuguese pos, pus, from Latin post.

• pos

pus

1. (archaic) after, behind

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pus

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pus”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pus”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “pus”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “pus”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpus/ [ˈpʊs]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: pus
• Homophone: PUS

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

pus

1. puss: a term to address or call a cat

   Synonyms: meong, meng

Borrowed from Dutch pus, from Latin pūs.

pus

2. (pathology) pus

   Synonym: nanah

• “pus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).^[1]

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /pˠʊsˠ/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /pˠɞsˠ/^[3]

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)

1. (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
2. snout

   Synonyms: cab, glomhar, gulba, smaois, smuilc, smúrlach, smut, soc, srubh

Alternative declension

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Hyphenation: pùs

pus m (invariable)

1. pus, matter

• pus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• sup

From Proto-Italic *puos, from Proto-Indo-European *púH-os ~ *púH-es-os, from *puH-. Cognate with Sanskrit पुवस् (púvas), Ancient Greek πύον (púon), πύθω (púthō, “to rot”), Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐍃 (fuls, “foul”), Old English fūl (“foul”), English foul.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpuːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpus]

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension

1. pus
2. foul, corrupt matter

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "pus", 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)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia)
    
  • (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
    

pus

1. Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus.

pus

1. cat

From Old French plus, from Latin.

pus

1. (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[5], page 537:

     Sème tes concombres en Mars,
     Tu n' airas qu' faire de pouque ni de sac;
     Sème-les en Avril, tu en airas ùn petit;
     Mé, j' les semerai en Mai;
     Et j'en airai pûs que té.

     Sow your cucumbers in March,
     you will want neither bag nor sack;
     sow them in April, you will have a few;
     I will sow mine in May,
     and I shall have more than you.

pus m (plural pus)

1. (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

pus

1. first-person singular preterite of pouver

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural puser, definite plural pusene)

1. (informal) cat

   Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt

   Anne har en kjempesøt pus.

   Anne has an adorable cat.

• “pus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “pus” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /pʉːs/

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)

1. (informal) cat, puss

   Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt, pise

• “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• pu (Mistralian)

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

pus

1. more
   • 19^th Century, Joseph Roumanille, Poésies diverses recueillies par Joseph Roumanille:

     Mai iéu siéu pus urous qu'un rèi !

     But I am happier than a king!

• Hyphenation: pus

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

pus m (plural puses)

1. pus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pus

1. plural of pu

Latin posuī

pus

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 234:

     Não pus nada no suco!

     I didn't put anything in the juice!

• “pus”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pus”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Past participle of pune. Probably formed on the basis of the simple perfect, puse, or from a hypothetical earlier form *post, from Latin postus, syncopated form of positus (compare also adăpost, where this was preserved).

• IPA^(key): [pus]

• Audio:

  (file)

pus

1. past participle of pune

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpus/ [ˈpus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: pus

pus m or (also in some parts of Latin America) f (plural puses)

1. pus
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 302:

     Para el cachín (úlcera inveterada), es bueno tomar el polvo de una culebra quemada, y aplica a la úlcera una lagartija, a la cual se ha despojado de las patas y la cola, con el objeto de que ésta chupe el pus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “pus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Proto-Turkic *bus (“steam”). Cognate with Tuvan бус (bus, “steam”), Bashkir боҫ (boś, “steam”), Chuvash пӑс (păs, “steam”), etc.

• IPA^(key): /pus/

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)

1. haze

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /pʰus/

pus

1. steam bath

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

From Latin plūs, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“many”).

• IPA^(key): /py/

pus

1. more