pustule
Meaninga blister
Common meaning: a small blister
- pustula blister, pimpleLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1494 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√SPU‘blow, puff’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 444, p. 746 · scan
- Latinpustula, -ae‘a blister, pimple’
- Frenchpustule
- Englishpustule‘a small blister’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin pustula ‘a blister, pimple’.
Roots
- pustula, -ae Latin “a blister, pimple”
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