purpura

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple.

• (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.

• purpuric
• purpurous

• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

purpura

1. of the colour violet

purpura

1. the color violet

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

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

1. magenta (having a reddish-purple color)

• viola

• purppura

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura.

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

purpura

1. (pathology) purpura

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): /purˈpur.a/

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

• purpurea

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

• 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]

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 form of purpurs

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

• Middle High German: purpur
  • German: Purpur

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

• 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

purpura

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