# pus
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Pashto terms

## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: pŭs, IPA: /pʌs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌs

### Noun

pus (uncountable)
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* pus-gutted
* pussy, pusy
* puss (alternative spelling)

#### Related terms

* puriform
* purulent
* pustulent
* suppure, suppurate, suppurative, suppurant

#### Translations
### Verb

pus (third-person singular simple present pusses, present participle pussing, simple past and past participle pussed)
* (rare) To emit pus.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.

### Anagrams

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

## Albanian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

pus m (plural puse, definite pusi, definite plural puset)
* well (source of water)

#### Synonyms

* ubël

## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

### Noun

pus
* 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.

### References

* D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpus]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

pus m (uncountable)
* pus

##### Related terms

* purulent

### Etymology 2

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

#### Adverb

pus
* (archaic) more
* (Mallorca) more (in negative sentences)
    Synonym: més
    no en vull pus
       I don't want (any) more of it

##### Usage notes

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

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Catalan pus, from Latin post.

#### Conjunction

pus
* after

### References

* ↑ “pus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “pus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “pus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpus]
* Rhymes: -us

### Noun

pus
* genitive plural of pusa

### Anagrams

* sup

## Dutch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pus
* Rhymes: -ʏs

### Noun

pus n or m (uncountable)
* pus (whitish-yellow bodily substance)
    Synonym: etter

#### Descendants

* → Papiamentu: pus

## Finnish
### Etymology

See pusu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpus/, [ˈpus̠]
* Rhymes: -us
* Hyphenation: pus

### Interjection

pus (informal)
* mwah, smooch

#### See also

* pus kii

### Further reading

* “pus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /py/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, put, pût

### Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle French from Latin pus, meaning the same.

#### Noun

pus m (plural pus)
* pus

##### Related terms

* purulent

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pus
* first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

pus m pl
* (extremely rare) masculine plural of pu

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpus]

#### Noun

pus f (invariable)
* pus
    Synonyms: materia, apostema

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* pos

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpus]

#### Preposition

pus
* (archaic) after, behind

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

pus
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of pôr

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch poes.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpʊs]

### Noun

pus
* puss: a term to address or call a cat
    Synonym: meong

### References

* “pus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish bus (“lip”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /pˠʊsˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /pˠʌsˠ/

### Noun

pus m (genitive singular puis, nominative plural pusa or pusanna)
* (protruding) mouth; sulky expression, pout
* snout
    Synonyms: cab, glomhar, gulba, smaois, smuilc, smúrlach, smut, soc, srubh

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
pus
pusa
vocative
a phuis
a phusa
genitive
puis
pus
dative
pus
pusa
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an pus
na pusa
genitive
an phuis
na bpus
dative
leis an bpus don phus
leis na pusa :

##### Alternative declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
pus
pusanna
vocative
a phuis
a phusanna
genitive
puis
pusanna
dative
pus
pusanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an pus
na pusanna
genitive
an phuis
na bpusanna
dative
leis an bpus don phus
leis na pusanna :

#### Derived terms

* puisín m (“lip”)
* pusach (“pouting”, adjective)
* pusaí m (“sulky person”)
* pusaíoch m (“sulky person”)
* pusaire m (“sulky person”)
* puslach m (“muzzle”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “4 bus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 166, page 85
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 360, page 123

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pus”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, 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

## Italian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpus/
* Rhymes: -us
* Hyphenation: pùs

### Noun

pus m (invariable)
* pus, matter

#### Related terms

* mucopus
* pio-
* purulento
* purulenza
* pustola

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* sup

## Latin
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /puːs/, [puːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /pus/, [pus]

### Noun

pūs n (genitive pūris); third declension
* pus
* foul, corrupt matter

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* pūrulentus
* suppūrō

#### Descendants

* Aromanian: pronjiu, proanji
* Catalan: pus
* → Dutch: pus (learned)
** → Papiamentu: pus
* → English: pus
* French: pus
* Galician: pus
* Italian: pus, purino
* Portuguese: pus
* Romanian: puroi
* Spanish: pus

### References

* “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’s 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, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) logic, dialectic: dialectica (-ae or -orum) (pure Latin disserendi ratio et scientia) (ambiguous) astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)

## Lushootseed
### Noun

pus
* Southern Lushootseed form of ʔəpus.

## Miskito
### Noun

pus
* cat

## Norman
### Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin.

#### Adverb

pus
* (Jersey) more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, 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.

#### Noun

pus m (plural pus)
* (Jersey, mathematics) plus sign

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pus
* first-person singular preterite of pouver

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʉːs/

### Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural puser, definite plural pusene)
* (informal) cat
    Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt
    Anne har en kjempesøt pus.Anne has an adorable cat.

### References

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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʉːs/

### Noun

pus m (definite singular pusen, indefinite plural pusar, definite plural pusane)
* (informal) cat
    Synonyms: katt, kattepus, pusekatt

### References

* “pus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* pu (Mistralian)

### Etymology

From Old Occitan plus, from Latin plus.

### Adverb

pus
* more
** 19th Century, Joseph Roumanille, Poésies diverses recueillies par Joseph Roumanille:Mai iéu siéu pus urous qu'un rèi !But I am happier than a king!

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpu(j)s/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpu(j)s/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpu(j)ʃ/ [ˈpu(ɪ̯)ʃ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpuʃ/
* Hyphenation: pus

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

#### Noun

pus m (plural puses)
* pus

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

pus
* plural of pu

### Etymology 3

Latin posuī

#### Verb

pus
* 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!

## Romanian
### Etymology

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).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pus]
* Audio:(file)

### Participle

pus
* past participle of pune

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pūs.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpus/ [ˈpus]
* Rhymes: -us
* Syllabification: pus

### Noun

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

### Further reading

* “pus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pus/

### Noun

pus (definite accusative pusu, plural puslar)
* haze

#### Declension
## Tzotzil
### Pronunciation

* (Zinacantán) IPA: /pʰus/

### Noun

pus
* steam bath

### References

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

## Walloon
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /py/

### Adverb

pus
* more