púrpura

See also: purpura, purpurá, purpurā, and purpură

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Adjective

púrpura m sg (feminine singular púrpura, neuter singular púrpura, masculine plural púrpures, feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Doublet of the inherited porpra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpur.pu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾa]

Adjective

púrpura m or f (masculine and feminine plural púrpures)

1. purple

Noun

púrpura f (uncountable)

1. purple

Synonyms

• porpra

Further reading

• “púrpura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)

See also

Colors in Galician · cores (layout · text)

branco	gris	negro, preto
vermello; carmín	laranxa; castaño, marrón	amarelo; crema
verde lima	verde	menta; verde escuro
ciano; azul verdoso	cerúleo	azul
violeta; anil	maxenta; púrpura	rosa

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. a colour between purple and red
2. (medicine) purpura (marks on the skin due to subdermal bleeding)
3. Tyrian purple (a purple dye extracted from certain sea molluscs)
   1. any mollusc that produces Tyrian purple
   2. red fabric, dyed with Tyrian purple (a symbol of royal or ecclesiastic power)
      1. (metonymically) royal or ecclesiastic power

Adjective

púrpura (invariable)

1. of a colour between purple and red

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra). Cf. the inherited Old Spanish forms pórpola (“purple cloth”), pórpora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuɾpuɾa/ [ˈpuɾ.pu.ɾa]

Adjective

púrpura m or f (masculine and feminine plural púrpuras)

1. (heraldry) purpure
2. (anglicism) purple

Noun

púrpura f (plural púrpuras)

1. purple (colour)
2. (in a poetic sense) blood
3. Tyrian purple
4. (mollusk) purple dye murex (Murex brandaris)
5. (pathology) purpura, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

Synonyms

• (colour): morado
• (mollusk): cañadilla, cañaílla

See also

• Púrpura trombocitopénica trombótica on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es