PURUS, purus
Sounds Like: POO-roos
Translations: pure, clean, unblemished, unmixed, undefiled, chaste, innocent, unadulterated, uncorrupted, unspotted, clear, bright, plain, simple, unadorned
From the root: PURUS
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: PURUS is a Latin adjective meaning 'pure' or 'clean'. It can describe something physically clean, like water or air, or something morally pure, like a person's character or intentions. It is often used to denote a state of being free from dirt, contamination, or moral blemish. It can also refer to something unmixed or unadulterated, such as 'pure gold'. In a broader sense, it can mean simple, plain, or unadorned.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine. This adjective inflects for gender (masculine, feminine, neuter), number (singular, plural), and case (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative).
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, PURUS.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- PURAM — pure, clean, chaste, unblemished, undefiled, unmixed, unadulterated
- PURISSIMAM — most pure, very pure, a most pure, a very pure
- PURUM — pure, clean, clear, unmixed, unblemished, simple, a pure thing
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