purpura

EnglishEdit

 
Petechia and purpura on a human ankle.

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)

  1. (pathology) The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

CebuanoEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

AdjectiveEdit

purpura

  1. of the colour violet

NounEdit

purpura

  1. the color violet

EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /purˈpura/
  • Hyphenation: pur‧pur‧a

AdjectiveEdit

purpura (accusative singular purpuran, plural purpuraj, accusative plural purpurajn)

  1. magenta (having a reddish-purple color)

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Colors in Esperanto · koloroj (layout · text)
     blanka      griza      nigra
             ruĝa; karmezina              oranĝokolora; bruna              flava; kremkolora
             limekolora              verda             
             cejanblua; turkisa              lazura              blua
             violkolora; indiga              magenta; purpura              rozokolora

FinnishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpurpurɑ/, [ˈpurpurɑ]
  • Rhymes: -urpurɑ
  • Syllabification(key): pur‧pu‧ra

NounEdit

purpura

  1. (pathology) purpura

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of purpura (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
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
instructive purpuroin
abessive purpuratta purpuroitta
comitative purpuroineen
Possessive forms of purpura (type kulkija)
possessor singular plural
1st person purpurani purpuramme
2nd person purpurasi purpuranne
3rd person purpuransa

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of pourpre.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

purpura m (plural purpuras)

  1. (pathology) purpura

Further readingEdit

IdoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From purpuro +‎ -a.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

purpura

  1. (obsolete) purple

SynonymsEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, purple-fish), of Semitic origin.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

  1. the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
  2. the color purple

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative purpura purpurae
Genitive purpurae purpurārum
Dative purpurae purpurīs
Accusative purpuram purpurās
Ablative purpurā purpurīs
Vocative purpura purpurae

DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • 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

LatvianEdit

NounEdit

purpura m

  1. genitive singular form of purpurs

Old High GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

NounEdit

purpura f

  1. purple
  2. purple cloth or raiment

DescendantsEdit

PolishEdit

 
Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /purˈpu.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: pur‧pu‧ra

NounEdit

purpura f

  1. purple color
  2. purple cloth
  3. purple raiment
  4. purple dye
  5. (pathology) purpura
    Synonym: plamica

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

adjective
noun
verbs

Related termsEdit

adverb

Further readingEdit

  • purpura in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • purpura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

purpura

  1. inflection of purpurar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative