purpura

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpure.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/

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.

• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

purpura

1. of the colour violet

purpura

1. the color violet

• IPA^(key): [ˈpurpura]

purpura f

1. (pathology) purpura
2. Christmas frankincense

• “purpura”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “purpura”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “purpura”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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• IPA^(key): /purˈpura/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

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

1. magenta (having a reddish-purple color)

• purppura

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.

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

purpura

1. (pathology) purpura

• “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 3 July 2023

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of pourpre.

• IPA^(key): /pyʁ.py.ʁa/

purpura m (plural purpuras)

1. (pathology) purpura

• “purpura”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From purpuro +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /purˈpura/

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

   Synonym: purpurea

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”).

• purpura: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊr.pʊ.ra]
• purpura: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpur.pu.ra]
• purpurā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpʊr.pʊ.raː]
• purpurā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpur.pu.ra]

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• “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

purpura m

1. genitive singular of purpurs

From Proto-West Germanic *purpurā (“purple”).

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

• Middle High German: purpur, purper
  • German: Purpur

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.

• IPA^(key): /purˈpu.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: pur‧pu‧ra

purpura f

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

   Synonym: plamica

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

• IPA^(key): /puɾˈpuɾa/ [puɾˈpu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: pur‧pu‧ra

purpura

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