# pulso
## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pulso.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul̪.so]
* Hyphenation: pul‧so

### Noun

púlso (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜎ᜔ᜐᜓ)
* (physiology) pulse
* (anatomy) wrist
    Synonym: bubutkan

#### Derived terms

* magpulso
* pulsohan
* pulsohon

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish pulso.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpulso/, [ˈpul.so]
* Hyphenation: pul‧so

### Noun

pulso
* pulse

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpulso/

### Noun

pulso (accusative singular pulson, plural pulsoj, accusative plural pulsojn)
* beat
    Synonyms: tempo, takto
* pulse
    Synonym: korbatado

#### Derived terms

* ĉefpulso (“downbeat”)

#### Related terms

* pulsi (“to beat, blink, pulsate, throb”)

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pulsus (“beat; pulse”), from pellō (“I drive; I strike”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul.s̺ʊ]
* Rhymes: -ulso
* Hyphenation: pul‧so

### Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)
* (cardiology, uncountable) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)
* (cardiology, uncountable) heart rate (number of heart beats per unit of time)
* pulsation (single beat)
* (electronics) electric pulse
* (anatomy) wrist (hand joint)
    Synonym: boneca (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* a pulso
* pulseira

#### Related terms

* impulso
* pulsación
* pulsador
* pulsar

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pulso”, 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), “pulso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pulso”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpul.so/
* Rhymes: -ulso
* Hyphenation: pùl‧so

### Verb

pulso
* first-person singular present indicative of pulsare

### Anagrams

* spulo, spulò

## Ladino
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pulso, polso (“pulse”), from Latin pulsus.

#### Noun

pulso m (Hebrew spelling פולסו)
* (anatomy) wrist
** 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎, Editions Vidas Largas, page 68:Eran fetchas de dos plakas grandes, kuvriendo kaje todo el braso (del kovdo al pulso), tenidas entre eyas por unas kadenikas ke fazian el torno del braso.They were made from two big slabs, covering almost the entire arm (from the elbow to the wrist), meeting each other through some necklaces that went around the arm.

##### Alternative forms

* puso

##### Derived terms

* del kulo al pulso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pulso
* first-person singular present indicative of pulsar
* third-person singular preterite indicative of pulsar

#### References

* ↑ “pulso”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* pultō (pre-Classical)

### Etymology

Frequentative of pellō (“drive, strike”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpul.soː/, [ˈpʊɫ̪s̠oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpul.so/, [ˈpulso]

### Verb

pulsō (present infinitive pulsāre, perfect active pulsāvī, supine pulsātum); first conjugation
* to push, strike, beat, batter, hammer; knock on; pulsate
    Synonyms: mulcō, feriō, impingō, ī̆cō, afflīgō, caedō, tangō, verberō, accīdō, percutiō, discutiō, pellō, percellō
* (figuratively) to urge or drive on, impel, move, agitate, disturb, disquiet
* (figuratively) to accuse, defame; injure, insult
    Synonyms: obloquor, maledīcō, crīminor, arcessō, increpō, castīgō, corripiō, arripiō, accūsō, incūsō, compellō, arguō, īnsultō
* (figuratively) to remove, put out of the way, drive away; dispel

#### Conjugation

$^1$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

### Participle

pulsō
* masculine/neuter dative/ablative singular of pulsus

#### Derived terms

* circumpulsō
* expulsō
* impulsō
* pede tellūrem pulsō
* prōpulsō
* pulsābulum
* pulsātiō
* pulsātor
* repulsō

#### Related terms

* pellō
* pulsiō
* pulsuōsus
* pulsus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: pulsare
* Padanian:
** Friulian: pulsâ
** Piedmontese: possé
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: poulser
*** Middle French: pousser
**** → English: push
***** → Papiamentu: pusha
**** French: pousser
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: puxar
** Old Galician-Portuguese: puxar
*** Galician: puxar
*** Portuguese: puxar (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: puxar
*** Ladino: pujar
*** Spanish: pujar
* Borrowings:
** → Asturian: pulsar
** → French: pulser
** → Galician: pulsar
** → Piedmontese: pulsé
** → Portuguese: pulsar
** → Romanian: pulsa
** → Spanish: pulsar

### References

* “pulso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “pulso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* pulso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to knock at the door: ostium, fores pulsare

### Anagrams

* polus

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* polso

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pulsus.

### Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)
* (physiology) pulse

#### Descendants

* Ladino: pulso, puso, פולסו, פוסו
* Spanish: pulso
** → Chavacano: pulso
** → Tagalog: pulso

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “pulso”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 416

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpuw.su/ [ˈpuʊ̯.su]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpuw.su/ [ˈpuʊ̯.su]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpuw.so/ [ˈpuʊ̯.so]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpul.su/ [ˈpuɫ.su]
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ulsu, (Brazil) -uwsu
* Hyphenation: pul‧so

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pulsus (“beat; pulse”), from pellō (“to drive; to strike”).

#### Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)
* (cardiology, uncountable) pulse (regular beat caused by the heart)
    Synonym: pulsação
* (cardiology, uncountable) heart rate (number of heart beats per unit of time)
* pulsation (single beat)
    Synonyms: batida, pulsação
* (anatomy) wrist (hand joint)
    Synonym: punho
* (electronics) electric pulse

##### Derived terms

* pulseira

##### Related terms

* impulso
* pulsação
* pulsador
* pulsante
* pulsar
* pulsátil
* pulsativo
* pulsear
* pulsimétrico
* pulsímetro
* pulsional
* pulsógrafo
* pulsómetro
* pulsor

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pulso
* first-person singular present indicative of pulsar

### Further reading

* “pulso”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “pulso”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “pulso” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “pulso”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “pulso”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “pulso”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul.so]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ulso
* Syllabification: pul‧so

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pulso, polso (“pulse”), from Latin pulsus.

#### Noun

pulso m (plural pulsos)
* (physiology) pulse
* arm-wrestle
    Synonym: pulseada
** 2021 May 19, Laura J. Varo, ““Es la ‘marcha negra’, venimos de todo Marruecos””, in El País‎:Más de 8.000 personas han accedido a la ciudad, a nado o a pie, sorteando las rocas, a través de los espigones de Benzú, al norte, y del Tarajal, al sur, como consecuencia del pulso diplomático que ha echado Rabat a Madrid.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua) aim
    Synonym: puntería

##### Derived terms

* a pulso
* echar un pulso
* pulsera
* pulsudo

##### Related terms

* impulso
* pulsar

##### Descendants

* → Chavacano: pulso
* → Tagalog: pulso

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pulso
* first-person singular present indicative of pulsar

### Further reading

* “pulso”, 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
* “pulso”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pulso.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpulso/ [ˈpul.so], /pulˈso/ [pʊlˈso]
* Rhymes: -ulso, -o
* Syllabification: pul‧so

### Noun

pulso or pulsó (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜎ᜔ᜐᜓ)
* (physiology) pulse
    Synonym: pintig
* (anatomy) wrist
* feeling or opinion of a group of people

#### Derived terms

* pulsuhan

### Anagrams

* pulos