πορφύρα
See also: πορφυρά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /por.pʰý.raː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /porˈpʰy.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /porˈɸy.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /porˈfy.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /porˈfi.ra/
Noun
πορφῠ́ρᾱ • (porphúrā) f (genitive πορφῠ́ρᾱς); first declension
- purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)
- purple dye obained from it
- (in the plural) cloths of purple
- purple stripe or other adornment of a garment
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ πορφῠ́ρᾱ hē porphúrā |
τὼ πορφῠ́ρᾱ tṑ porphúrā |
αἱ πορφῠ́ραι hai porphúrai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς πορφῠ́ρᾱς tês porphúrās |
τοῖν πορφῠ́ραιν toîn porphúrain |
τῶν πορφῠρῶν tôn porphurôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ πορφῠ́ρᾳ têi porphúrāi |
τοῖν πορφῠ́ραιν toîn porphúrain |
ταῖς πορφῠ́ραις taîs porphúrais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν πορφῠ́ρᾱν tḕn porphúrān |
τὼ πορφῠ́ρᾱ tṑ porphúrā |
τᾱ̀ς πορφῠ́ρᾱς tā̀s porphúrās | ||||||||||
Vocative | πορφῠ́ρᾱ porphúrā |
πορφῠ́ρᾱ porphúrā |
πορφῠ́ραι porphúrai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἁλιπόρφυρος (halipórphuros)
- ἐπιπόρφυρος (epipórphuros)
- παμπόρφυρος (pampórphuros)
- πορφυράνθεμος (porphuránthemos)
- πορφυρεῖον (porphureîon)
- πορφύρεος (porphúreos)
- πορφυρεύς (porphureús)
- πορφυρευτής (porphureutḗs)
- πορφυρεύω (porphureúō)
- πορφυρίζω (porphurízō)
- πορφυρική (porphurikḗ)
- πορφύριον (porphúrion)
- πορφυρίς (porphurís)
- πορφυρίτης (porphurítēs)
- πορφυρῖτις (porphurîtis)
- πορφυρίων (porphuríōn)
- πορφυρόβαπτος (porphuróbaptos)
- πορφυροβάφος (porphurobáphos)
- πορφυροδίνης (porphurodínēs)
- πορφυροειδής (porphuroeidḗs)
- πορφυρόεις (porphuróeis)
- πορφυροεργής (porphuroergḗs)
- πορφυρόζωνος (porphurózōnos)
- πορφυρόκαυλος (porphurókaulos)
- πορφυροκλέπτης (porphurokléptēs)
- πορφυρομιγής (porphuromigḗs)
- πορφυρόνωτος (porphurónōtos)
- πορφυρόπεζα (porphurópeza)
- πορφυροπώλης (porphuropṓlēs)
- πορφυρόστρωτος (porphuróstrōtos)
- πορφυροσχήμων (porphuroskhḗmōn)
- πορφυροῦς (porphuroûs)
- πορφυρόχροος (porphurókhroos)
- πορφυρώδης (porphurṓdēs)
- ὑποπόρφυρος (hupopórphuros)
Descendants
Further reading
- “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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra), lacking any Indo-European cognates, likely loaned from a Mediterranean substrate source (probably Semitic).
Noun
πορφύρα • (porfýra) f (plural πορφύρες)
- murex (the mollusc)
- Tyrian purple, royal purple (the dye, and its colour, obtained from the mollusc)
Declension
Declension of πορφύρα
Synonyms
- (colour): πορφυρό n (porfyró)
Related terms
- πορφυρός (porfyrós, “purple”, adj)
Further reading
Πορφύρα (χρωστική) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
References
- 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
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- el:Colors
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