púrpura

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

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

1. purple

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpur.pu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾa]

púrpura m or f (masculine and feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

   Synonym: porpra

púrpura f (uncountable)

1. purple

   Synonym: porpra

• “púrpura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “púrpura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “púrpura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “púrpura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾpuɾa/ [ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -uɾpuɾa

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)

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

• Hyphenation: púr‧pu‧ra

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. (metonymic) royal or ecclesiastic power

púrpura (invariable)

1. of a colour between purple and red

   Synonyms: purpurino, purpúreo

• púrpuro

• “púrpura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “púrpura”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “púrpura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “púrpura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “púrpura”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “púrpura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Cf. the inherited Old Spanish forms pórpola (“purple cloth”), pórpora.^[1]

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

púrpura m or f (masculine and feminine plural púrpuras)

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

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

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

• “púrpura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024