πορφύρα

• πορφύρρη (porphúrrhē) — Ionic

Traditionally derived from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “(of waves) to heave, boil, surge up”), itself related to φύρω (phúrō, “to mix”), Hittite 𒁍𒊒𒌓 (purut, “mud, soil”) and Sanskrit भुरति (bhuráti, “have convulsions, sprawl”).^[1] However, Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the absence of connections in other Indo-European languages.

πορφῠ́ρᾱ • (porphŭ́rā) f (genitive πορφῠ́ρᾱς); first declension

1. purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)

   Synonym: κᾰ́λχη (kắlkhē)

2. a purple dye obtained from it
3. (in the plural) cloths of purple
4. purple stripe or other adornment of a garment

• Greek: πορφύρα (porfýra)
• → Latin: purpura (see there for further descendants)
• → Translingual: Porphyra

• “πορφύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πορφύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πορφύρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

πορφύρα • (porfýra) f (plural πορφύρες)

1. murex (the mollusc)
2. Tyrian purple, royal purple (the dye, and its colour, obtained from the mollusc)

• (colour): πορφυρό n (porfyró)

• πορφυρός (porfyrós, “purple”, adjective)

• Πορφύρα (χρωστική) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el