purus

See also: purūs

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *pūros, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with putus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.rus/, [ˈpuːrʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.rus/, [ˈpuːrus]

Adjective

pūrus (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum, comparative pūrior, superlative pūrissimus, adverb pūrē or pūriter); first/second-declension adjective

clear, limpid
Synonyms: putus, absolūtus

Antonyms: incestus, sordidus, impurus
clean; pure
Synonym: līmpidus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	pūrus	pūra	pūrum	pūrī	pūrae	pūra
Genitive	pūrī	pūrae	pūrī	pūrōrum	pūrārum	pūrōrum
Dative	pūrō	pūrae	pūrō	pūrīs
Accusative	pūrum	pūram	pūrum	pūrōs	pūrās	pūra
Ablative	pūrō	pūrā	pūrō	pūrīs
Vocative	pūre	pūra	pūrum	pūrī	pūrae	pūra

Derived terms

Descendants

Italian: puro
Old French: pur
- French: pur
  - → Romanian: pur
- Norman: pur
- → Middle English: pure, pur, puyr, pore, poure, peure, puȝr, puir, puire, puyre
  - Scots: puir, pure
  - English: pure
  - → Cornish: pur
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: pur
Old Portuguese: puro
- Galician: puro
- Portuguese: puro
Old Spanish:
- Spanish: puro
  - → English: puro
  - → Greek: πούρο (poúro)
  - → Turkish: puro
Romansch: pur, pür
Sicilian: puru
→ German: pur
→ Swedish: pur
→ Welsh: pur
→ Westrobothnian: pul

References

“purus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“purus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
purus 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)
purus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- pure, correct language: oratio pura, pura et emendata
- incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis
- to assume the toga virilis: togam virilem (puram) sumere

Latvian

Noun

purus m

(dialectal form) accusative plural form of purs

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