puro

See also: puró

English

Etymology

From Spanish puro, originally cigarro puro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʊəɹəʊ/

Noun

puro (plural puros)

  1. A cigar, especially one made with tobacco from a single country.

Anagrams


Finnish

Etymology

Possibly descriptive of the sound a water makes when flowing in a creek. Related to Karelian puro.

Noun

puro

  1. streamlet, brook, creek (body of running water smaller than a river)

Declension

Inflection of puro (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative puro purot
genitive puron purojen
partitive puroa puroja
illative puroon puroihin
singular plural
nominative puro purot
accusative nom. puro purot
gen. puron
genitive puron purojen
partitive puroa puroja
inessive purossa puroissa
elative purosta puroista
illative puroon puroihin
adessive purolla puroilla
ablative purolta puroilta
allative purolle puroille
essive purona puroina
translative puroksi puroiksi
instructive puroin
abessive purotta puroitta
comitative puroineen

Derived terms

Compounds

Anagrams


Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese puro, from Latin pūrus.

Adjective

puro m (feminine singular pura, masculine plural puros, feminine plural puras)

  1. pure

Antonyms

Derived terms

Noun

puro m (plural puros)

  1. cigar

Synonyms

Further reading


Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (compare Indonesian pulau, Ilocano puro, Malay pulau, Sundanese pulo, Tagalog pulo).

Noun

puro

  1. island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pūrus.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uro

Adjective

puro (feminine singular pura, masculine plural puri, feminine plural pure)

  1. pure

Antonyms


Latin

Adjective

pūrō

  1. dative masculine singular of pūrus
  2. dative neuter singular of pūrus
  3. ablative masculine singular of pūrus
  4. ablative neuter plural of pūrus

References

  • puro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • puro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese puro, from Latin pūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *peu-, *pu- (to cleanse, purify).

Pronunciation

Adjective

puro m (feminine singular pura, masculine plural puros, feminine plural puras, comparable)

  1. pure (free of pollutants)
    Antonyms: impuro, contaminado
  2. pure; flawless (free of flaws or imperfections)
    Antonyms: impuro, imperfeito
  3. pure; clean (free of immoral behaviour)
    Antonyms: impuro, sujo

Inflection

Derived terms


Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish puro, from Latin pūrus.

Adjective

puro (feminine singular pura, masculine plural puros, feminine plural puras)

  1. pure, clear
    Antonyms: impuro, mezclado, sucio
  2. alone, mere, nothing less than

Inflection

  • Superlative: purísimo, más puro
  • Augmentative: purote
  • Diminutive: purito

Derived terms

See also

Adverb

puro

  1. only, merely

Synonyms

Antonyms

Noun

puro m (plural puros)

  1. cigar, puro
  2. (Spain) (colloquial) a fine (especially a big one).

Synonyms

Descendants

Further reading


Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish burro.

Noun

puro (plural purojte)

  1. Donkey.

References

  • Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962) Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos, segunda impresión edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, published 1971, page 176

Turkish

Noun

puro (definite accusative puroyu, plural purolar)

  1. cigar

Declension

Inflection
Nominative puro
Definite accusative puroyu
Singular Plural
Nominative puro purolar
Definite accusative puroyu puroları
Dative puroya purolara
Locative puroda purolarda
Ablative purodan purolardan
Genitive puronun puroların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular purom purolarım
2nd singular puron puroların
3rd singular purosu puroları
1st plural puromuz purolarımız
2nd plural puronuz purolarınız
3rd plural puroları puroları

Waray-Waray

Adjective

puro

  1. pure; free from admixture

Noun

purô

  1. island
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