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purus
purus
See also: purūs
Latin
Adjective
pūrus m (feminine pūra, neuter pūrum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | pūrus | pūra | pūrum | pūrī | pūrae | pūra | |
| genitive | pūrī | pūrae | pūrī | pūrōrum | pūrārum | pūrōrum | |
| dative | pūrō | pūrō | pūrīs | ||||
| accusative | pūrum | pūram | pūrum | pūrōs | pūrās | pūra | |
| ablative | pūrō | pūrā | pūrō | pūrīs | |||
| vocative | pūre | pūra | pūrum | pūrī | pūrae | pūra | |
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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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “purus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
- pure, correct language: oratio pura, pura et emendata