pulsus

Esperanto

Verb

pulsus

1. conditional of pulsi

Ido

Verb

pulsus

1. conditional of pulsar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.sus/, [ˈpʊɫ̪s̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpul.sus/, [ˈpulsus]

Etymology 1

pellō +‎ -sus (action noun)

Noun

pulsus m (genitive pulsūs); fourth declension

1. pulse, impulse, beat, stroke

   Synonyms: vulnus, colaphus, ictus, plāga

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pulsus	pulsūs
genitive	pulsūs	pulsuum
dative	pulsuī	pulsibus
accusative	pulsum	pulsūs
ablative	pulsū	pulsibus
vocative	pulsus	pulsūs

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: polso
  • Sicilian: pusu
• Old French: poulz (see there for further descendants)
• Astur-Leonese
  • Asturian: poxa, ponxa, poixa, poisa, puisa
  • Leonese: poisa, pueisa, puisa, puixa, poxa
    • → Spanish: poisa
• Catalan: pols
• Friulian: pols
• Venetan: polso

Borrowings

• → Asturian: pulsu
• → Czech: pulz
• → Danish: puls
• → Finnish: pulssi
• → Galician: pulso
• → Georgian: პულსი (ṗulsi)
• → Hungarian: pulzus
• → Icelandic: púls
• → Macedonian: пулс (puls)
• → Middle Dutch: pols
  • Dutch: pols
    • Afrikaans: pols
    • Negerhollands: poels
    • → Papiamentu: pòls, pols
• → Middle High German: puls (late)
  • German: Puls
• → Norwegian: puls (Bokmål), puls (Nynorsk)
• → Polish: puls
• → Portuguese: pulso
• → Russian: пульс (pulʹs)
• → Serbo-Croatian: puls / пулс
• → Slovak: pulz
• → Spanish: pulso
  • → Chavacano: pulso
  • → Tagalog: pulso
• → Swedish: puls

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of pellō (“push, expel”). Displaced Proto-Italic *poltos, perfect passive participle of *pelnasi (“to bring close”), which would have yielded *pultus.

Participle

pulsus (feminine pulsa, neuter pulsum); first/second-declension participle

1. expelled, kicked out, having been kicked out.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.362:

     ‘spēs erat in cursū: nunc lare pulsa suō est.’

     “Hope was on course: Now, she has been expelled from her own home.”
     (The Gauls had invaded Rome; Mars asks Jupiter to intervene. The poetic voice of Mars may be understood figuratively as well as literally, because the invaders now occupied the Temple of Spes, or Hope.)

2. pushed, shoved, having been pushed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pulsus	pulsa	pulsum		pulsī	pulsae	pulsa
genitive	pulsī	pulsae	pulsī		pulsōrum	pulsārum	pulsōrum
dative	pulsō	pulsae	pulsō		pulsīs
accusative	pulsum	pulsam	pulsum		pulsōs	pulsās	pulsa
ablative	pulsō	pulsā	pulsō		pulsīs
vocative	pulse	pulsa	pulsum		pulsī	pulsae	pulsa

References

• “pulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pulsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulsus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pulsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari