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Borrowed from Middle French purulent, from Latin pūrulentus, from pūs (“pus”).
purulent (comparative more purulent, superlative most purulent)
- (medicine) Consisting of pus.
- Near-synonym: puriform
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:
It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.
- (medicine) Leaking or seeping pus.
1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:
Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.
consisting of pus
- Bulgarian: гноен (bg) (gnoen)
- Catalan: purulent
- Dutch: etterend (nl), etterig (nl), purulent (nl)
- Finnish: märkivä (fi), märkäinen
- French: purulent (fr)
- Galician: purulento
- German: eiterig (de), Eiter- (de)
- Greek: πυώδης (el) (pyódis)
- Hungarian: gennyes (hu)
- Irish: angaíoch, angúil
- Italian: purulento (it)
- Maori: taemataku
- Polish: ropny (pl)
- Portuguese: purulento (pt)
- Russian: гно́йный (ru) (gnójnyj)
- Spanish: purulento (es)
- Ukrainian: гнійни́й (hnijnýj)
“purulent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Learned borrowing from Latin pūrulentus.
purulent (feminine purulente, masculine plural purulents, feminine plural purulentes)
- “purulent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Borrowed from French purulent, from Latin purulentus.
purulent m or n (feminine singular purulentă, masculine plural purulenți, feminine and neuter plural purulente)