purpura
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpure.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/
Noun edit
purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)
- (pathology) The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.
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Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra
Adjective edit
purpura
- of the colour violet
Noun edit
purpura
- the color violet
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Adjective edit
purpura (accusative singular purpuran, plural purpuraj, accusative plural purpurajn)
- magenta (having a reddish-purple color)
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See also edit
blanka | griza | nigra |
ruĝa; karmezina | oranĝokolora; oranĝkolora; oranĝo; bruna | flava; kremkolora |
limekolora | verda | |
cejanblua; turkisa | lazura | blua |
violkolora; viola; indiga | magenta; purpura | rozokolora |
Finnish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
purpura
Declension edit
Inflection of purpura (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | purpura | purpurat | ||
genitive | purpuran | purpuroiden purpuroitten | ||
partitive | purpuraa | purpuroita | ||
illative | purpuraan | purpuroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | purpura | purpurat | ||
accusative | nom. | purpura | purpurat | |
gen. | purpuran | |||
genitive | purpuran | purpuroiden purpuroitten purpurainrare | ||
partitive | purpuraa | purpuroita | ||
inessive | purpurassa | purpuroissa | ||
elative | purpurasta | purpuroista | ||
illative | purpuraan | purpuroihin | ||
adessive | purpuralla | purpuroilla | ||
ablative | purpuralta | purpuroilta | ||
allative | purpuralle | purpuroille | ||
essive | purpurana | purpuroina | ||
translative | purpuraksi | purpuroiksi | ||
abessive | purpuratta | purpuroitta | ||
instructive | — | purpuroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “purpura”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of pourpre.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
purpura m (plural purpuras)
Further reading edit
- “purpura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido edit
Etymology edit
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purpura
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”).
Pronunciation edit
- purpura: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊrpʊrä]
- purpura: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]
- purpurā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.raː/, [ˈpʊrpʊräː]
- purpurā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]
Noun edit
purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension
- the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
- the color purple
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | purpura | purpurae |
Genitive | purpurae | purpurārum |
Dative | purpurae | purpurīs |
Accusative | purpuram | purpurās |
Ablative | purpurā | purpurīs |
Vocative | purpura | purpurae |
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Descendants edit
- Old French:
- French: pourpre
- Italian: porpora
- Old Occitan: porpra
- Old Spanish: pórpola, pórpora
- → Asturian: purpura
- → Proto-Brythonic: *porfor
- → Catalan: púrpura
- → English: purpura (learned)
- → French: purpura (learned)
- Friulian: pùrpure
- → Galician: púrpura
- → Proto-West Germanic: *purpurā (see there for further descendants)
- → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 (paurpura)
- → Old Irish: corcur (see there for further descendants)
- → Polish: purpura
- → Portuguese: púrpura
- → Romanian: purpură
- → Russian: пурпур (purpur)
- → Spanish: púrpura
Further reading edit
- “purpura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “purpura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- purpura 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)
- purpura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “purpura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Latvian edit
Noun edit
purpura m
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *purpurā (“purple”).
Noun edit
purpura f
Descendants edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
purpura f
Declension edit
Declension of purpura
Derived terms edit
adjectives
nouns
verbs
- purpurowieć impf
- spurpurowieć pf
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adverbs
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Verb edit
purpura
- inflection of purpurar: