purus

From Proto-Italic *pūros, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”).[1] Cognate with putus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.rus/, [ˈpuːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpu.rus/, [ˈpuːrus]

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

1. clear, limpid

   Synonyms: putus, absolūtus

   Antonyms: incestus, sordidus, impurus

2. clean; pure

   Synonym: līmpidus

First/second-declension adjective.

• 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 Galician-Portuguese: puro
  • Galician: puro
  • Portuguese: puro
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: puro
    • → English: puro
    • → Greek: πούρο (poúro)
    • → Turkish: puro
• Romansch: pur, pür
• Sicilian: puru
• → German: pur
• → Proto-Brythonic: *pʉr
  • Welsh: pur
• → Swedish: pur

• “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
    

purus m

1. (dialectal) accusative plural of purs