English

Noun

puce ‎(plural puces)

1. a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

   puce colour:

   dark puce colour:

Translations

Adjective

puce ‎(comparative more puce, superlative most puce)

1. Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

French

Etymology

From Latin pūlex, pulicis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pys/
• Homophones: puces, ****, pussent, pusses

Noun

puce f ‎(plural puces)

1. flea
2. chip (electronics), silicon chip

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Diminutive form of pȕto.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pȕce n ‎(Cyrillic spelling пу̏це)

1. button

Declension

References

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