英语单词

puce是什么意思

puce

英 [pjuːs] 美 [pjus]
  • n. 深褐色;紫褐色
  • adj. 深褐色的;紫褐色的
  • n. (Puce)人名;(意)普切

中文词源


puce 紫红色的,深褐色的

来自法语puce,跳蚤,来自拉丁语pulicem,跳蚤,来自PIE*plou,跳蚤,词源同flea.可能进一步来自PIE*pleu,流动,飞,词源同flow,fly.后该词用于指跳蚤的颜色或跳蚤的便粒颜色,碰到水会溶解变成血红色。词义演变比较carmine,kermes.

英文词源


puce
puce: [18] Puce is etymologically ‘fleacoloured’. It was borrowed from French puce ‘flea’, a descendant of Latin pūlex ‘flea’, which goes back to the same Indo-European source as English flea [OE].
=> flea
puce (n.)
"brownish-purple," 1787, from French puce "flea-color; flea," from Latin pucilem (nominative pulex) "flea," from PIE *plou- "flea" (cognates: Sanskrit plusih, Greek psylla, Old Church Slavonic blucha, Lithuanian blusa, Armenian lu "flea"). That it could be generally recognized as a color seems a testimony to our ancestors' intimacy with vermin.

双语例句


1. His face was puce with rage.
他气得脸色发紫。

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2. The man's face was puce with rage.
那人的脸都气紫了.

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3. I want puce gloves and green boots.
我要戴深褐色的手套,穿绿色长统靴.

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