purpura
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/
NounEdit
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.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
CebuanoEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra
AdjectiveEdit
purpura
- of the colour violet
NounEdit
purpura
- the color violet
EsperantoEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
purpura (accusative singular purpuran, plural purpuraj, accusative plural purpurajn)
- magenta (having a reddish-purple color)
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit
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
NounEdit
purpura
DeclensionEdit
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 | |
instructive | — | purpuroin | |
abessive | purpuratta | purpuroitta | |
comitative | — | purpuroineen |
Possessive forms of purpura (type kulkija) | ||
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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)
Further readingEdit
- “purpura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
purpura
SynonymsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), of Semitic origin.
PronunciationEdit
- purpura: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊrpʊrä]
- purpura: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]
- purpurā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.raː/, [ˈpʊrpʊräː]
- purpurā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpurpurä]
NounEdit
purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension
- the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
- the color purple
DeclensionEdit
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 |
DescendantsEdit
- → Old English: purpuren, purple
- → English: purpura (learned)
- → Asturian: purpura
- → Proto-Brythonic: *porfor
- → Catalan: púrpura
- → Cornish: purpur
- Old French:
- French: pourpre
- → French: purpura (learned)
- Friulian: pùrpure
- → Galician: púrpura
- → Old High German: purpur, purpura
- → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 (paurpura)
- → Old Irish: corcur
- Italian: porpora
- → Middle Low German:
- Plautdietsch: purpur
- Old Occitan: porpra
- Old Spanish: pórpola, pórpora
- → Polish: purpura
- → Portuguese: púrpura
- → Romanian: purpură
- → Russian: пурпур (purpur)
- → Spanish: púrpura
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
- genitive singular form of purpurs
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
purpura f
DescendantsEdit
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
purpura f
DeclensionEdit
Declension of purpura
Derived termsEdit
adjective
noun
verbs
Related termsEdit
adverb
Further readingEdit
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
purpura
- inflection of purpurar: