Where does “puce” come from?

puce (English) comes from French puce, from Old French puce, from Latin pūlex, from Proto-Indo-European *plus- — flea.

puce (English): A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less...

Definitions

  1. A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less...

Ancestry of “puce”, step by step

puce traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French puce

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpuceflea
2Old Frenchpuceflea
3Latinpūlexflea
4Proto-Indo-European*plus-flea

via French couleur puce

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcouleur puceflea-colored

Words derived from “puce”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *plus- →