puce

From French couleur puce (“flea-colored”), from Latin pūlex (“flea”).

• IPA^(key): /pjuːs/

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• Rhymes: -uːs

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

   puce:  

   dark puce:  

   • 1881, Alvin Wood Chase, Dr. Chase's Recipes Or, Information for Everybody (page 596)

     For blacks, browns, puces, and violets, the acetate or tartrate of iron must be employed.

puce (comparative pucer, superlative pucest)

1. Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

• → Welsh: piws

• Appendix:Colors

From Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, singular accusative of pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).

• IPA^(key): /pys/

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• Homophones: puces, pusse, pussent, pusses

puce f (plural puces)

1. flea
2. chip (electronics), silicon chip
3. (typography) bullet
4. (endearing) sweetie

• excité comme une puce
• marché aux puces
• mettre la puce à l'oreille
• sac à puces
• saut de puce
• secouer les puces

puce

1. inflection of pucer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

Diminutive form of pȕto.

• IPA^(key): /pût͡se/
• Hyphenation: pu‧ce

pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

1. button

• “puce” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Skok, Petar (1972) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume II, Zagreb: JAZU, page 65

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

puce (Cyrillic spelling пуце)

1. inflection of puca:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural