pulsus

Esperanto

Verb

pulsus

conditional of pulsi

Ido

Verb

pulsus

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

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

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.)
pushed, shoved, having been pushed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
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