pirus

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay firus (“turquoise”), from Persian فیروزه (firuze, “turquoise”), پیروزه (piruze), from Middle Persian *pērōzag, from 𐭯𐭩𐭫𐭥𐭰 (pērōz, “victorious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpirʊs/
• Hyphenation: pi‧rus
• Rhymes: -rʊs, -ʊs, -s

Noun

pirus (plural pirus-pirus, first-person possessive pirusku, second-person possessive pirusmu, third-person possessive pirusnya)

1. turquoise:
   1. a sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
   2. a pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.

      pirus:  

      Synonym: biru pirus

Further reading

• “pirus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

See pirum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.rus/, [ˈpɪrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.rus/, [ˈpiːrus]

Noun

pirus f (genitive pirī); second declension

1. a pear-tree

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pirus	pirī
Genitive	pirī	pirōrum
Dative	pirō	pirīs
Accusative	pirum	pirōs
Ablative	pirō	pirīs
Vocative	pire	pirī

Synonyms

• (a pear-tree): pirārius (Medieval Latin)

Derived terms

• pirārium (Medieval Latin)

Related terms

• pirum

Descendants

• Translingual (binominal nomenclature): Pyrus
• Aromanian: per
• Italian: pero
• Romanian: păr
• Sicilian: piru
• Spanish: pero
• Tashelhit: tafirast

References

• “pĭrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pirus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pirus 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)
• pirus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pirus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “pirus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pirus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Further reading

• pyrus on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la