puce

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

• Rhymes: -uːs

puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)

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

   puce colour:  

   dark puce colour:  

puce (comparative more puce, superlative most puce)

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

• 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. (affectionate) sweetie

puce

1. first-person singular present indicative of pucer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pucer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pucer
5. second-person singular imperative of pucer

• “puce” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Diminutive form of pȕto.

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

pȕce n (Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

1. button

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