pulsus

pulsus

1. conditional of pulsi

pulsus

1. conditional of pulsar

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

pellō +‎ -sus (action noun)

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1. pulse, impulse, beat, stroke

   Synonyms: vulnus, colaphus, ictus, plāga

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Borrowings

Perfect passive participle of pellō (“push, expel”).

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

1. expelled, kicked out, having been kicked out.
   • 43 BCE – c. 17 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.

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• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be affected by some external impulse, by external impressions: pulsu externo, adventicio agitari