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), 2008–2026

From Latin purpura.

• IPA^(key): /purˈpura/

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: 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; purple-dye; purple cloths”), whence English porphyry.

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

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

1. the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.60.125:

     Purpurae vivunt annis plurimum septenis. latent sicut murices circa canis ortum tricenis diebus. congregantur verno tempore mutuoque attritu lentorem cuiusdam cerae salivant.

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2. the color magenta or purple, associated with nobility, power and thus, luxury (see for exemple Laticlave)
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.62.145:

     Maior traditur mas [hedera] et corpore et folio, duriore etiam ac pinguiore et flore ad purpuram accedente; […]

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   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.273–275:

     namque uno ingentem tollit de caespite silvam,
     aureus ipse, sed in foliis, quae plurima circum
     funduntur, violae sublucet purpura nigrae

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3. (transferred senses):
   1. an insignia of this color, worn by the kings, high magistrates and finally, by the emperors
      • 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sestio 26:

        […] : de hoc nihil cogitante, nihil suspicante, eisdem operis suffragium ferentibus, est rogatum ut sedens cum purpura et sceptro et illis insignibus regiis praeconi publico subiceretur, et imperante populo Romano, qui etiam bello victis regibus regna reddere consuevit, rex amicus nulla iniuria commemorata, nullis rebus repetitis, cum bonis omnibus publicaretur.

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      • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.493–496:

        fortunatus et ille deos qui nouit agrestis
        Panaque Siluanumque senem Nymphasque sorores.
        illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum
        flexit et infidos agitans discordia fratres, […]

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   2. (pars pro re) a lofty station, high dignity

      Hypernyms: officium, munus, honor

      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.79–81:

        Vestibus intactis Tarpeias itur in arces,
        et populus festo concolor ipse suo est,
        iamque novi praeeunt fasces, nova purpura fulget,
        et nova conspicuum pondera sentit ebur.

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      • 61 CE – 65 CE, Lucan, Pharsalia 7.228:

        Sicci sed plurima campi
        Tetrarchae regesque tenent magnique tyranni,
        Atque omnis Latio quae servit purpura ferro.

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   3. any garment of this color, not necessarily precious
      • 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sestio 8.19:

        Vestitus aspere nostra hac purpura plebeia ac paene fusca, capillo ita horrido ut Capua, in qua ipsa tum imaginis ornandae causa duumviratum gerebat, Seplasiam sublaturus videretur.

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   4. any precious, valuable object; luxury

      Synonyms: aurum, gemmae; luxuriēs

      • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 2.1.48–50:

        Istas magnas factiones, animos, dotes dapsiles,
        clamores, imperia, eburata vehicla, pallas, purpuram,
        nil moror quae in servitutem sumptibus redigunt viros.

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      • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.1423–1424:

        Tunc igitur pelles, nunc aurum et purpura curis
        exercent hominum vitam belloque fatigant; […]

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First-declension noun.

purpurā

1. ablative singular of purpura

• “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, 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/

• Audio:

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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