purpura

See also: Purpura, purpurá, púrpura, purpurā, and purpură

English

Petechia and purpura on a human ankle.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura (countable and uncountable, plural purpuras)

1. (medicine) The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.

Derived terms

• purpurous

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pur‧pu‧ra

Adjective

purpura

1. of the colour violet

Noun

purpura

1. the color violet

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. purple (having blue/red mixture that makes the color purple)

Related terms

• viola

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• purppura

Noun

purpura

1. (medicine) purpura

Declension

Inflection of purpura (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		purpura	purpurat
genitive		purpuran	purpuroiden purpuroitten
partitive		purpuraa	purpuroita
illative		purpuraan	purpuroihin
		singular	plural
nominative		purpura	purpurat
accusative	nom.	purpura	purpurat
	gen.	purpuran
genitive		purpuran	purpuroiden purpuroitten purpurainrare
partitive		purpuraa	purpuroita
inessive		purpurassa	purpuroissa
elative		purpurasta	purpuroista
illative		purpuraan	purpuroihin
adessive		purpuralla	purpuroilla
ablative		purpuralta	purpuroilta
allative		purpuralle	purpuroille
essive		purpurana	purpuroina
translative		purpuraksi	purpuroiksi
instructive		—	purpuroin
abessive		purpuratta	purpuroitta
comitative		—	purpuroineen

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Ido

Etymology

From purpuro +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /purˈpur.a/

Adjective

purpura

1. (obsolete) purple

Synonyms

• purpurea

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpur.pu.ra/, [ˈpʊr.pʊ.ra]

Noun

purpura f (genitive purpurae); first declension

1. the purple-fish, a species of shellfish or mussel
2. the color purple
3. vocative singular of purpura

purpurā

1. ablative singular of purpura

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	purpura	purpurae
genitive	purpurae	purpurārum
dative	purpurae	purpurīs
accusative	purpuram	purpurās
ablative	purpurā	purpurīs
vocative	purpura	purpurae

Descendants

• English: purple
• Asturian: purpura
• Catalan: porpra, púrpura
• French: pourpre
• Friulian: pùrpure
• Galician: púrpura
• German: Purpur
• Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍀𐌿𐍂𐌰 (paurpura)

• Irish: corcra
• Italian: porpora
• Old Spanish: pórpola, pórpora
• Portuguese: púrpura
• Romanian: purpură
• Russian: пурпур (purpur)
• Spanish: púrpura
• Welsh: porffor

Further reading

• 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, 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

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Latvian

Noun

purpura m

1. genitive singular form of purpurs

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Old High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin purpura.

Noun

purpura f

1. purple
2. purple cloth or raiment

Descendants

• Middle High German: purpur
  • German: Purpur

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Spanish

Verb

purpura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of purpurar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of purpurar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of purpurar.