púrpura

See also: purpura, purpurá, purpurā, and purpură

Asturian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Adjective

púrpura m sg (feminine singular púrpura, neuter singular púrpura, masculine plural púrpures, feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Doublet of porpra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾa/

Adjective

púrpura (masculine and feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

Noun

púrpura f (uncountable)

1. purple

Synonyms

• porpra

Further reading

• “púrpura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)

See also

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)

branco	gris	negro
vermello; carmín	laranxa; castaño, marrón	amarelo; crema
verde lima	verde	menta; verde escuro
ciano; azul verdoso	cerúleo	azul
violeta; anil	maxenta; púrpura	rosa

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʁ.pu.ɾɐ/ [ˈpuh.pu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʁ.pu.ɾɐ/ [ˈpuh.pu.ɾɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpuʁ.pu.ɾɐ/ [ˈpuχ.pu.ɾɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɻ.pu.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾɐ/

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. a colour between purple and red
2. (medicine) purpura (marks on the skin due to subdermal bleeding)
3. Tyrian purple (a purple dye extracted from certain sea molluscs)
   1. any mollusc that produces Tyrian purple
   2. red fabric, dyed with Tyrian purple (a symbol of royal or ecclesiastic power)
      1. (metonymically) royal or ecclesiastic power

Adjective

púrpura (invariable)

1. of a colour between purple and red

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Cf. the inherited Old Spanish forms pórpola (“purple cloth”), pórpora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾpuɾa/ [ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾpuɾa
• Syllabification: púr‧pu‧ra

Adjective

púrpura (plural púrpuras)

1. (heraldry) purpure
2. (anglicism) purple

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)

   Synonym: morado

2. (in a poetic sense) blood
3. Tyrian purple
4. (mollusk) purple dye murex (Murex brandaris)

   Synonyms: cañadilla, cañaílla

5. (pathology) purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

See also

• Púrpura trombocitopénica trombótica on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Colors in Spanish · colores (layout · text)

blanco	gris	negro
rojo; carmín, carmesí	naranja, anaranjado; marrón	amarillo; crema
lima	verde	menta
cian, turquesa; azul-petróleo	celeste, cerúleo	azul
violeta; añil, índigo	magenta; morado, púrpura	rosa

Further reading

• “púrpura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014