puce的词源

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.

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.

该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：puce 词源，puce 含义。